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make specific equipment upgrades that would more “efficiently distribute” electricity and thus further reduce the need for the proposed line, PEC Spokesman Bob Lazarro said.
PEC believes a proposed Allegheny and American Electric Power line from the Ohio River to a site just north of Washington, D.C. would “solve serious (electricity) problems in the region in 2012.”
That line would preclude the need for the Dominion project, according to PEC.
“We’ve looked at it,” Dominion Spokesman Jim Norvelle said of the PEC report. “It’s interesting it came out around the time of the governor’s report. We agree with (Gov. Tim Kaine) we need to do more with technology, conservation and generation. I think Dominion’s on that path.”
Norvelle said that Dominion next week will kick off a program encouraging the use of fluorescent bulbs.
In “partnership” with The Home Depot and a bulb manufacturer, Dominion will help make available to its customers 1.4 million bulbs at half price.
“We know conservation is going to take a huge role,” Norvelle said.
He also said Dominion has a permit before the SCC for a “clean-coal” power plant it wants to build in Wise County in southwest Virginia.
It will be constructed “so that when the technology becomes available to capture carbon dioxide, we’ll be able to retrofit the plant rather easily” Norvelle said.
Dominion disagrees that the proposed transmission line that would run from the Ohio River to suburban Washington would replace the proposed Piedmont line.
It would supplement the Dominion line, Norvelle said.
PEC views Dominion’s recent conservation efforts as too little, too late and token gestures designed to curry favor with politicians and other decision makers.
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