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ways to reduce consumption.
PEC estimates its massive effort to kill the Dominion proposal and change the way Virginia - and perhaps ultimately the country - think about energy issues will cost more than $2 million.
The organization has recorded a few victories along the way, Miller said.
He noted that in recent weeks Dominion announced it would “subsidize” a program to encourage customers to replace incandescent bulbs with more energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs, . . . ? sr PEC*pressed Dominion to do that about a year ago.
“We welcome [Dominion] to the party,” Miller said.
But PEC believes the utility can do better.
On a voluntary basis, customers of the Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative can participate in energy-saving programs that reduce their use of electricity during peak times. Dominion should follow NOVEC’s example, Miller said.
If Dominion’s 1.1 million Fairfax County users adopted similar conservation practices “the [electricity] demand in Northern Virginia would drop precipitously - 10, 15 percent,” he contended.
Then the “rationale” for the proposed line would “disappear” he said.
PEC believes conservation, new technology and improvements to existing infrastructure can satisfy Northern Virginia’s appetite for electricity.
Attorneys Paul B. Terpak and James T. Waldo, who specialize in eminent-domain law,
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