Two of the country’s biggest electric power companies are planning to build an extra-high voltage transmission “superhighway” across 10 counties in southwestern and central Pennsylvania, in what would be one of the largest new electric transmission projects ever built in the commonwealth.
NextEra Energy and Exelon Corp. have teamed up to propose the 765-kilovolt transmission line to run 220 miles from Marshall County, W.Va., to Perry County, Pa. — traversing Greene, Fayette, Westmoreland, Indiana, Cambria, Blair, Huntingdon, Mifflin and Juniata counties in between.
The project is estimated to cost $1.7 billion and to be placed in service in 2031…