WEST VIRGINIA Land Owner Resources

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. 

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. 

In West Virginia Energy Companies must submit a Notice Of Intent (NOIE) then wait 30 days before filing an application, NOIEs expire within 90 days.  

Based on the NOIE filings the windows for filing the applications in West VA are:

•   NextERA: Intends to file applications in all states in January 2026
•   Potomac Edison (First Energy) : NOIE expires February 18, 2026

Gore-Doubs-Goose Creek 

• West VA PSC Case Number: NOIE Potomac Edison 25D
• Submit your comments for NOIE Potomac Edison 25D: here
• Impacts: Jefferson County
• See First Energy's Gore-Doubs-GooseCreek Project Map 

Mid-Atlantic Resiliency Link (MARL)

• 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 25D and NOIE NextERA Energy 25A (Submit your comments 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 transmission 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)

If you are impacted you may want to subscribe to these cases to receive an email when documents are filed. (See  instructions below)