Plan to Bury Transmission Lines Met With Opposition from Mid-Atlantic Coops

Old Dominion Electric Cooperative and North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation are among the wholesalers disputing whether they must help pay to bury three Virginia transmission lines as currently proposed by the Virginia Electric and Power Co. in transmission rate agreements with the wholesalers.  The wholesalers argue that burying the lines is a purely local retail decision that provides no benefits to the wholesales.  Read more here (subscription required).

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