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Expert urges scrutiny of Mid-Atlantic Resilience Link as route, costs and greenhouse-gas effects remain unclear
Summary
At the Aug. 26 Morgantown City Council meeting, Jim Coatsen, chair of the Morgantown Green Team, outlined benefits and risks of the proposed Mid-Atlantic Resilience Link transmission project and called for public-review and PSC engagement once route details are filed.
Jim Coatsen, chair of the Morgantown Green Team, briefed Morgantown City Council on Aug. 26 about the Mid-Atlantic Resilience Link, a proposed high-voltage transmission project that would carry electricity from the Ohio Valley toward load centers on the East Coast. Coatsen told council that the project — developed by NextEra Transmission and discussed inside PJM’s Regional Transmission Expansion planning — could ease transmission bottlenecks and enable more renewable connections, but the public lacks needed data on how the line would change power flows, greenhouse-gas emissions and local impacts. "If on the other hand, it promotes the use of existing fossil…
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