Mid-Atlantic Resiliency Link (MARL) / Gore-Doubs-Goose Creek
Both First Energy and NextERA have filed Notices Of Intent and said they intend to file the Application in early December.
The Mid -Atlantic Resiliancy Link (MARL) and Gore-Doubs-Goose Creek projects are two segments of the same transmission line. The energy is being pulled from multiple West Virginia power plants from the 502 Junction in Pennsylvania to the delivery point - the Goose Creek Substation - in Loudoun County's Data Center Alley. There are two cases but it is the same transmission line!
First Energy' s segment is called Gore-Doubs-Goose Creek . This proposal is a rebuild of the 138kV transmission line structures to a 185' pole with a new 500kV and the existing 138kV line underbuilt. There are new 200' ROW's around existing substations.
- West VA PSC Case Number: NOIE Potomac Edison 25C
- Submit your comments for NOIE Potomac Edison 25C: here
- Impacts: Jefferson County
- See First Energy's Gore-Doubs-GooseCreek Project Map
NextERA's segment is called the Mid-Atlantic Resiliency Link (MARL). This proposal is to take a new 200' easement for siting the 500kV line through Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
- West VA PSC Case Number: NOIE NextERA Energy 25A
- Submit your comments for NOIE NextERA Energy 25A : here
- Impacts: Preston, Monongalia, Mineral and Hampshire Counties
- See NextERA's MARL Project Map
You don't have to live in West Virginia to submit comments. You can file comments with the PSC for both dockets. Submit your comments for both cases NOIE Potomac Edison 25C and NOIE NextERA Energy 25A (submit 2x one for each docket number!)
There is no federal backstop for siting this line - if any one of the states denies it the transmission line will not be built.
If you are intervening in either West VA PSC case be sure to include a request for the PSC that if the line is not denied by West Virginia, that the approval be contingent on the second transmission line case in West Virginia as well as the other segments being approved in all other states (Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia)
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Valley Link (765kV) has not scheduled open houses and has not filed an application any state
We expect open houses to be scheduled winter 2025 into first quarter 2026
Valley Link will impact Putnam, Kanawha, Roane, Calhoun, Braxton, Lewis, Upshur, Barbour, Tucker, Preston, Grant, Hardy, Hampshire and Jefferson counties
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