North Carolina Coop Begins Hearings on Transmission Line Route

This week Rutherford Electric Membership Corporation (REMC) began hearings regarding the value of land in the Box Creek Wilderness area near Union Mills, North Carolina.  REMC began condemnation proceedings in January in order to obtain a transmission line easement to connect various substations.  The transmission line addition will provide supplemental transmission capacity to 5,000 residents in an area set to overload current transmission capacity by 2014.  Click here to learn more.

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