TWO New 765kV routes – affecting our ENTIRE area – were approved by the PJM Board in February 2025. DATA CENTER EXPANSION is the MAIN Driver:
The bold green lines are new 765kV lines. One comes from the south outside of Lynchburg, VA to a new substation in Fauquier County, VA: Yeat. The other comes from the Amos substation in West Virginia to a new substation in Frederick County, MD: Rocky Point at Point of Rocks. The bold red line is a new 500kV line called the Kracken Loop.
Full details here.
These multiple plans will have massive 765kV transmission lines and substations (in addition to even more 500kV lines and substations) coming east through West Virginia, Maryland, Southern and Western Virginia, crisscrossing our area, and proceeding beyond.
What more will it take for YOU to speak out and take action against the decimation of our communities because of impossible data center demands, nuclear power plants being dropped everywhere, and VERY BAD votes by the Board of Supervisors to approve even more data centers???
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