The project consists of a 765kV transmission line extending approximately 275 miles from the Amos Substation in Putnam County, West Virginia, to the proposed Kemptown Substation near New Market, Maryland.
In the recent filings, Potomac Edison, an Allegheny affiliate, submitted a new application to the Maryland Public Service Commission requesting authorization to construct the 20-mile Maryland segment. PATH Allegheny Virginia Transmission Corporation, also an Allegheny affiliate, asked the Virginia State Corporation Commission to allow the withdrawal of its application and to grant a suspension of the current procedural schedule. PATH plans to file a new application for the 31-mile Virginia segment in early 2010.
The West Virginia Public Service Commission is also reviewing an application for authorization to construct the PATH project in West Virginia, with evidentiary hearings scheduled for October 2010. The filings in Maryland and Virginia are designed to coordinate the procedural schedules in the three states and to enable respective commissions to consider the need for the project based on the same facts.
Allegheny Energy and American Electric Power are partners in the joint venture to build the multi-state transmission line.
