MORGANTOWN – The state Public Service Commission has scheduled four public hearings for NextEra Energy Transmission LLC’s MidAtlantic Resiliency Link Project, including one in Morgantown and one in Kingwood.
The PSC posted the schedule Thursday in an order that also granted several parties to intervene in the case and submit testimony for the evidentiary hearing.
All four hearings are in June:
- Potomac State College Davis Conference Center, Keyser, 5:30 p.m., June 4;
- Hampshire County Courthouse, Romney, 5:30 p.m. June 5;
- Mylan Park show room, Morgantown, 5:30 p.m. June 10;
- Kingwood Civic Center, Kingwood, 5:30 p.m. June 11.
NextEra is seeking PSC approval for its Application for Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity and Related Relief for its MARL project.
As of Thursday morning, there were 4,176 letters of protest and 115 letters of support submitted to the PSC.
MARL’s proposed 500-kilovolt line would span 107.5 miles starting in Greene County, Pa., and ending at a handoff point – a new 500 kV transmission line to be constructed by FirstEnergy – in Frederick County, Va.
About 58.9 miles of the line would cross West Virginia: 5.9 miles across Monongalia County, 15.8 across Preston, 10.9 across Mineral and 26.2 across Hampshire.
The current cost estimate for MARL is $1.167 billion. Of this, the current cost estimate for the West Virginia portions is $482,706,000. These estimates include siting, engineering, construction, financing, administration and legal costs.
