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Commission by the end of April. ‘A different emphasis’
PEC has been on the front lines of the campaign to prevent Dominion from building the corridor in northern Fauquier, and Miller said on Thursday that the new proposal poses “the same problem, but with a different emphasis.”
Miller said Dominion’s plan is not about preventing future electric deficiencies in Northern Virginia but about increasing company profits by delivering inexpensive electricity from coal-fired power plants in the Ohio Valley to Northeastern states. Miller said PEC has requested data to confirm Dominion’s claim for increasing electricity demand, but the power company has not provided those numbers.
Miller said available technology could be used in Northern Virginia to achieve a 10 percent reduction in energy usage, which would equal the 3,000 megawatts Dominion would get from adding the new transmission corridor. But Dominion - the 34th largest greenhouse-gas emitter in the world - has not explored those possibilities, Miller said.
According to Dominion’s Web site, the company plans to provide price incentives to customers who cut their energy consumption during times of peak demand. But that will not provide enough relief to resolve the problem of overloaded lines, the site says.
Miller encouraged people to take the simple step of replacing their incandescent fight bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs, which use 75 percent less energy. He also mentioned the possibility of building a clean-energy plant to produce electricity for the soon-to-expand Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County and upgrad
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