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By Kevin Allen
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Light bulbs illuminated without any connection to an electrical outlet and two politicians gave some of their money to a taxpayer.
The Power Line Awareness Festival was not an everyday event.
Some 250 people attended the event Saturday at Jordan River Farm in Huntly. The crowd came out on a mild, sunny autumn day to learn about alternative energy, sample local food and wine and listen to hours of live music.
Most of all, the event was organized to draw attention to a proposal from Allegheny Power, Dominion Virginia Power and PJM Interconnection to build another 500,000-volt electric corridor through Frederick, Warren, Fauquier, Rappahannock, Culpeper, Prince William and Loudoun counties.
Dominion’s existing 500,000-volt electric transmission corridor provided the backdrop for the event. The rust-colored, steel-lattice towers and buzzing, high-voltage power lines cross the 328-acre organic farm, whose owner, Cory Koral, ironically lives in a solar-powered house that is not connected to the electric grid.
The utility companies want to double the size of that corridor to transport more electricity to Northern Virginia. Existing towers in the corridor stand an average of 115 feet tall, according to Dominion, and new towers would be an average of 15 feet taller. Red balloons were set up at the festival to demonstrate how high new towers could reach.
The festival was not designed to make political waves, but the pols still came to Jordan River Farm on Saturday.
Both men who represent Rappahannock County in the General Assembly attended the festival. And both of them handed campaign contributions
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