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The public hearing was held by the DOE’s Office of Electric Delivery and Energy Reliability to seek comment from the public on a Northeast “national interest” electric transmission corridor designation, covering a broad swath of millions of acres from New York state to Virginia, ending in the Piedmont. The corridor designation would allow the federal government to make decisions about power transmission through the area without state or local input.
Its draft National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor (NIETC) designation covers more than 200 counties on the East Coast, including 15 counties and seven cities in Virginia.
In a Power Point presentation to the 150 people gathered, the DOE’s David Meyer explained that a “robust transmission grid” is the “superhighway” network needed to deliver “reliable, low-cost electricity to
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