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I he line would eventually run six miles through the northern tip of Culpeper in Jeffersonton, placed on top of an existing line. The possible power line is part of the TransAllegheny Interstate Line, a proposed 210 miles of transmission lines hum southwestern Pennsylvania to Northern Virginia.
With a 500,000-volt line, Dominion could transmit 3,500 mega watts of energy - enough for 875,000 homes on the hottest day of summer or the coldest day of winter.
But the project must receive approval from the State Corporation Commission to proceed. Dominion submitted a sixvolume application in April.
Dominion didn’t always have Rappahannock or Culpeper County in their sights, however.
The original plan had the line running through Fauquier County, where the Piedmont Environmental Council and Academy Award-winning actor Robert Duvall lead massive protests. In response, the company announced a new plan inFebruary 2007 that ran through Rappahannock and Culpeper Counties.
That new plan also comes with an added expense. The estimated cost of building 65 miles of transmission lines under the new plan is approximately $243 million, according to Dominion’s application with the SCC. By contrast, their previous route would run for only 37 miles and cost $141 million.
Many Culpeper supervisors believed that Dominion merely saw Culpeper as a lesser threat. Supervisor Bill Chase even posed the accusation to spokesperson John Sinatlak in March.
“You were trying to go through Loudoun County and the movie cowboy came out," Chase said, referring to Duvall. “And you all a sudden shifted to Culpeper and Rappahannock. I don’t think that’s necessarily
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