The Virginia State Corporation Commission will hold a public hearing in Haymarket to solicit public comments about a new overhead transmission line to be built.
The 5-mile, 230 kilovolt line will run from Prince William Parkway west on Interstate 66. It will pass by several homes in Haymarket, and property owners fear the unsightly power line will degrade property values.
The new line will connect to a new power substation to be build outside Haymarket, and will ultimately serve a new data center owned by Amazon.
Here’s more in a press release:
According to the company, the proposed electric facilities are necessary to provide service requested by a retail electric service customer for a new data center campus in Prince William County and to maintain reliable electric service to all customers in the area.
The local public hearings will be held at the Battlefield High School auditorium on February 24 and March 14, 2016. The high school is located at 15000 Graduation Drive in Haymarket. There are two hearing start times each day. The first is at 4:30 p.m. The second is at 7:00 p.m.
Any person wishing to comment at these hearings should arrive early and sign in with the SCC bailiff. A public witness only needs to testify once as all comments are made part of the case record.
The hearing will continue in Richmond on May 10, 2016 at 10 a.m. in the Commission’s second floor courtroom location in the Tyler Building at 1300 East Main Street in downtown Richmond.
Written comments on the proposal must be submitted by May 3, 2016. All correspondence should be sent to the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission, Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118, and refer to case number PUE-2015-00107.
Persons desiring to submit comments electronically may do so at the SCC’s website: www.scc.virginia.gov/case. Click on the PUBLIC COMMENTS/NOTICES link and then the SUBMIT COMMENTS button for case number PUE-2015-00107.
Protesters over the summer gathered at Battlefield High School outside Haymarket at a series of informational meetings held by Dominion. It was there they banded with elected officials who all urged Dominion to choose a hybrid design that would have meant constructing a portion of the transmission line overhead and the portion near homes underground.
Dominion on November 6 announced it had chose the overhead power line option.
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