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Dominion says that’s unlikely.

Donald Koonce, the Principal Engineer for the company, found that an underground option was technically feasible. But the option was rejected for its $1 billion price tag.

And consultants hired by Dominion agreed with Koonce, saying that the large size of the wires meant they would have to splice them together far more frequently. That drives the price even higher, since every connection would be made in an underground chamber the size of a 40foot trailer.

The report identified typical costs for putting a line underground as five times more expensive than overhead. In the end, they deemed it “electrically acceptable” but impractical and

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