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MD PSC MARL Case 9857 Deadline to Intervene: Friday, April 3, 2026
Impacts Garrett and Allegheny counties in Maryland
The Maryland PSC has issued a Notice for Pre-Hearing Conference, see file #8 in Case No. 9857.
Petitions to intervene must be filed by Friday, April 3, 2026, and may be filed electronically through the Commission’s website at pscmaryland.com or sent by first-class mail to the Commission’s Executive Secretary, Andrew S. Johnston, 6 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202-6806, referencing Case No. 9857"
NextERA is proposing to take a new 200' easement for their portion of the 500kV line through Garrett and Allegheny counties in Maryland.
This is an all new 200' easement that impacts rural property owners as well as the wildlands. Specifically, Big Savage Mountain Wildland, Bear Pen Wildland and Dan's Mountain Wildland This would be a brand new 200' easement through all three(3) wildlands, Bear Pen Wildland does not have any transmission line easements at all at this time.
- See NextERA's MARL Project Map
- MD PSC Case Number: 9857 Deadline to intervene is 4/3/2026
For local information contact Engage Mountain Maryland and on Facebook
see the Engage Mountain Maryland Blog for impacts and updates.
Read: How to Engage in the MD CPCN Process
Read : More Information on the Maryland Public Service Commission
Read: Forbes : "Protected Maryland Wildlands at Stake in Laws for Electric Powerline"
Intervene to protect your property rights! You can do this!
MD PSC Gore-Doubs-GooseCreek Case 9870 Deadline to Intervene: Monday, April 20, 2026
Impacts private property owners in Frederick and Montgomery counties in Maryland and the C&O Canal National Historical Park, Dickerson Conservation Area, Banner Park, Monocacy NRMA, Sugarloaf Mountain, and Owens Park
The Maryland PSC has issued a Notice for Pre-Hearing Conference, see file #3 in Case No. 9870.
Petitions to intervene in the MARL Case No. 9870 must be filed by Monday, April 20, 2026, and may be filed electronically through the Commission’s website at pscmaryland.com or sent by first-class mail to the Commission’s Executive Secretary, Andrew S. Johnston, 6 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202-6806, referencing Case No. 9870
This segment requires a special use exemption from the Frederick County Board Of Supervisors. Read how this line was re-routed into Maryland by Loudoun County. Contact your elected officials oppose the line.
From the Gore Doubs Goose Creek application:
"Potomac Edison plans to utilize self-supporting steel poles as the support structures for the transmission line conductors. Based on preliminary engineering, Potomac Edison anticipates using structure heights ranging anywhere from approximately 85 feet to approximately 260 feet in height above ground level."
The proposal is a rebuild within the existing easements through Frederick and Montgomery counties in Maryland. For some properties in Frederick and Montgomery, south of the Doubs substation, the project will result in 3 - 500kV and 2 - 230 lines in the existing two easements.
In addition to the Special Exemption required by Frederick County to cross these Resource Conservation and Agriculture zones, this application raises serious property rights issues concerning the existing easements.
Easements are deeded for a specific purpose, there are two existing easements one for each existing transmission line, the plats would show a center line and possibly the positions of the structures. Easement rights are not unrestricted. Adding two additional 500kV lines on 3 parallel structures would be in conflict with the existing easement deeds and would contradict Maryland easement laws. This is known as "overburdening the servient estate". Similar conflicts with easement laws are being raised by the property owners at No More Powerlines who have been fighting MD PUC Case 9748. If you have a power line easement on your property, check your deed, read the laws cited by No More Powerlines and contact an attorney if you have questions.
- See FirstEnergy's Gore-Doubs-GooseCreek Project Map
- See First Energy's Maryland Fact Sheet
- MD PSC Case Number: Case No. 9870 Deadline to intervene is 4/20/2026
Read : More Information on the Maryland Public Service Commission
Read: The Gore-Doubs-Goose Creek Application and notes
Intervene to protect your property rights! You can do this!
Mid-Atlantic Resiliency Link (MARL) => Alternate Route MARL
A bit of history on the MARL/Gore-Doubs-GooseCreek Project. The Mid-Atlantic Resiliency Link project approved by PJM in December of 2023, contained within Loudoun County, Virginia . The project route in December of 2023, did not cross the Potomac River and run through Frederick and Montgomery counties and back across the Potomac River into Data Center Alley.
StopMARLVirginia proposed alternate routes down highways from West VA that connect to Route 7, and down Route 7 which leads directly to the center of "Data Center Alley", or alternately underground HVDC, as had been investigated for the PATH project. But we did not have a seat at the negotiating table as we are in the vicinity of the "alternative route" preferred by Loudoun County's BOS.
To make a long story short, NextEra did not hold public meetings or make routing maps available for comments in any state prior to the August 2024 re-route. PJM accommodated Loudoun County's elected officials preferences for local routing and re-configured the project, at an additional cost of $167.28M to PJM Regional ratepayers (a 24% increase in the cost of the project). PJM also shifted the in-service date for the project four and a half years from June 30, 2027 to December 31, 2031 . Apparently, the brownouts and blackouts used to justify the project need date of 2027 have also magically "shifted" four and a half years.
The articles below provide the sequence of events:
1) December 13, 2023: Loudoun Now PJM Advances Proposal For Transmission Line In Western Loudoun
2) April 17, 2024:
- Loudoun Times Mirror: Loudoun County Supervisors ask NextERA to use Existing Transmission Line Corridor
- Loudoun Now: NextEra Power Line Route Opposed by Supervisors
3) July 5, 2024: Loudoun Now: LTLA Releases MARL Impact Study NextEra to Consider Alternate Route
4)July 9, 2024: Loudoun Now:PJM Considers Alternate Route for Western Loudoun Power Line
- "Del. Geary Higgins (R-30) who has been working with residents, community groups, NextEra, PJM and Gov. Glenn Youngkin to have the line moved said, while it is still early in the process to change the route, he was hopeful. “We have been advocating that this is the only reasonable and acceptable alternative since day one,” he told Loudoun Now. He said the community input was a crucial part of the conversation. “The people had their voice heard,” he said."
- "Sen. Russet Perry (D-31) agreed adding that she was "cautiously optimistic." "While the proposed route change is a clear testament to both the power of citizen participation and the willingness of Next Era to engage with local stakeholders, I am still very aware that the new route has its own opposition and concerns, and I plan to be involved in the additional discussions and meetings surrounding the new route," she said. "
5) August 9, 2024 :Loudoun Now: PJM Board Approves Alternate Powerline Route
6) August 12, 2024 : Loudoun Times: PJM Recommends New Transmission Route Using Existing Corridors
7) Loudoun Living: Loudoun County Board Challenges Proposed Transmission Line Route To Protect Local Heritage "As the approval process unfolds, Loudoun County will serve as a referral agency for the proposals within its jurisdiction, with the State Corporation Commission (SCC) overseeing the final approval." Loudoun County has no jurisdiction over any of this!
Valley Link North (Amos-Welton Springs-Rocky Point) - 765kV
Valley Link North will impact Frederick County, Maryland. The 765kV line is proposed to terminate at a new 765kV substation named Rocky Point that would be located @ 2 miles south of the Doubs substation.
Typically, 765kV substations take 80 - 120 acres . New 200' easements will be taken for the entire length of the 765kV line. These lines are proposed to be on v-structs with guyed-wire, these are the largest structures and highest voltage available. This infrastructure is massive and will be a significant industrialization of the area if it is approved.
Read more about the Valley Link North transmission line
Valley Link North has not scheduled open houses and has not filed an application any state. Maps have not been posted yet either.
There is no federal backstop for siting this line. If any one of the states denies it the transmission line will not be built.