CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – A roughly $1 billion electric transmission line project could soon cover about 115 miles of land in Central Virginia, stretching from Campbell County to Culpeper County.
Valley Link, a joint venture between Dominion Energy, FirstEnergy Transmission, LLC, and Transource Energy, LLC, is planning the Joshua Falls-Yeat Transmission Line Project, at 765 kilovolts, the highest-capacity power lines in the state and the nation.
“What we’re trying to do with this project is really bring a new backbone, a new interstate of power through the heart of our system,” said Adam Maguire, Dominion’s Strategic Project Advisor within the Electric Transmission Team…