Ethan Howland of UtilityDive reports on a proposed transmission project across PJM, the nation’s largest Regional Transmission Organization.
American Electric Power, Dominion Energy Virginia and FirstEnergy are proposing several multi-state transmission projects in the PJM Interconnection they designed through an ‘innovative joint planning agreement,’ the companies said Monday.
‘By leveraging the expertise and resources of three industry leaders whose transmission zones border one another, we’re better able to develop superior and more cost-effective solutions required to effectively resolve reliability issues across the PJM region,’ Ed Baine, Dominion Energy Virginia president, said in a press release. ‘These projects are more comprehensive and will be more effective than what each of our companies would be able to develop individually.’
The companies said they proposed the 765-kV, 500-kV and 345-kV transmission lines in Virginia, Ohio and West Virginia through PJM’s annual Regional Transmission Expansion Plan, or RTEP, open window process in September.
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