PSC hearing on power line continues (WCHS)
AP reports today on the Channel 8 Eyewitness News:
CHARLESTON, W.Va.
What is expected to be a lengthy evidentiary hearing on a proposed 1.3 billion-dollar multistate power line continues today.Allegheny Energy must convince the state Public Service Commission that the line is necessary before it can proceed.
Opponents of the project started pecking away at it yesterday . Opponents ranging from the Sierra Club to the commission’s staff peppered PJM Interconnection executive Steven Herling with questions aimed at undermining the justification for the project. (Emphasis is ours.)
While a subsidiary of Allegheny Energy would build the 240-mile line, it’s designed to solve future reliability problems for PJM’s transmission grid in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Herling testified that PJM needs the line to avoid severe reliability problems in the future.
The hearing expected to last about 11 days.