VIRGINIA Land Owner Resources

Mid-Atlantic Resiliancy Link (MARL)

The MARL and  Gore-Doubs-Goose Creek applications are two segments of the same transmission line.  NextERA is proposing to take a new 200' easement for their portion of the 500kV line through West Virginia to the Gore Substation in Frederick County, VA.  NextERA will also be applying to construct a new substation (Woodside Substation) in Clearbrook, VA .

• VA SCC Case: PUR-2026-00018 
• Status: Active
• See NextERA's MARL Project Map
• VA SCC PUR-2026-00018 MARL Comment Form submit comments by December 1, 2026

Information from the Hearing Order

• Only Property owners within 250  feet of the proposed and alternate routes will be sent notices by NextERA by May 8, 2026. NextERA is requesting a 200-foot to 500-foot siting  corridor, your property may still be impacted even if you do not receive a notice from NextERA.  
• "The Commission may consider a route not significantly different from the routes described in this notice without additional notice to the public."
• "NEET VA anticipates installing a total of 13 structures on the Virginia Portions of its  proposed route, with typical structure heights ranging from 115 to 190 feet tall, with an average height of approximately 150 feet and an average span length between transmission structures of approximately 1,015 feet.  The Company asserts that the entire 2.4 miles of right-of-way  ("ROW") for the Virginia Portions of the MARL Project would  require new property rights for new-build transmission line; thus, NEET VA would require new easements on 17 parcels. 
• The Company requests that the Commission grant it the flexibility to adjust the location of its ROW within a 200-foot to 500-foot siting corridor" 
• Under the DEA, NEET VA is obligated to complete the Woodside Substation by December 31, 2028, and  NEET VA and NEET MA are obligated to complete the overall MARL Project and place it into service by December 31, 2031. 
• The Company maintains that PJM has requested that NEET VA and NEET MA take all  reasonable actions for obtaining approvals and completing construction of   the transmission line as soon as is practicable and closer to the  identified need date of 2027-2028.

Key Dates

1) June 8, 2026 Deadline to Intervene as a Respondent

2) Wednesday, September 16, 2026, Public Hearing 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., at James Wood High School, 161 Apple Pie Ridge Road, Winchester, Virginia 22603  (Intervenors cannot speak at the public hearing.) 

2) September 30, 2026 Deadline to file Testimony

3) December 1, 2026 Deadline for Submitting Comments  

 4) December 1, 2026 Deadline for Signing up to speak telephonically as a Public Witness at the December 15, 2026 Public Hearing 

5) December 15, 2026 Evidentiary hearing at 10:00am December 15, 2026 at the VA SCC in Richmond

Gore-Doubs-Goose Creek 

The MARL and  Gore-Doubs-Goose Creek applications are two segments of the same transmission line.  First Energy has proposed a rebuild of the 138kV transmission line structures to a 185' pole with a new 500kV and the existing 138kV line under built for its portion of the project through Frederick, Clarke and north western Loudoun Counties

• VA SCC Case: TBD 
• Status: Application has not been filed
• See FirstEnergy's Gore-Doubs-GooseCreek Project Map

Read More:

• Preparing for the Virginia SCC Case
• Virginia SCC Process
• How  to Create a VA SCC Account for eFiling
• Review Examples of VA SCC Notices of Participation and other filings
• Annotated Example of Pro Se Notice of Participation
• Links to Virginia SCC,  State Codes , Easement Information 

If you are intervening in either VA SCC case (MARL or Gore-Doubs-Goose Creek) be sure to include  a request for the VA SCC that if the line is not denied by Virginia, that the approval be contingent on the transmission line components being approved in all other states (Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Maryland) 

Valley Link North 

This project is a 765Kv line on V-structs with guyed-wires requiring an entirely new 200' easement for its entire length. It would run from the West Virginia line through Frederick, Clarke and north western Loudoun counties to the Potomac River bordering Virginia and Maryland

• VA SCC Docket Number: TBD 
• Status: Application has not been filed
• See Valley Link North Maps

Read More:

• Preparing for the Virginia SCC Case
• Virginia SCC Process
• How  to Create a VA SCC Account for eFiling
• Review Examples of VA SCC Notices of Participation and other filings
• Annotated Example of Pro Se Notice of Participation
• Links to Virginia SCC,  State Codes, Easement Information