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appetite for electric power in Northern Virginia and that the best route for the line is a meandering, southerly route along existing utility right-of-way through Warren, Rappahannock, Culpeper, Fauquier and Prince William counties.
The hearing examiner concluded that “the use of existing right-ofway will have less of an impact on historical and cultural assets,” the SCC said. The southerly route is 28 miles longer and would cost $60 million more to build than a direct route paralleling Interstate 66 through the more populous areas of Northern Virginia, where the proposal stirred strong political opposition.
Building the transmission line through Rappahannock County would involve constructing a second set of 120-foot tall transmission towers along an existing right-ofway that cuts across the eastern portion of the county. This would be part of a 93-mile segment of the high-voltage line that runs from the Virginia-West Virginia border in Frederick County to a substation in Loudoun County. .
This Virginia segment is the eastern end of a proposed 240-mile line that originates in Southwestern Pennsylvania and continues through West V irginia and Virginia. The SCC hearing examiner recommended that the
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