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Regional commission adopts policy requiring transmission projects to evaluate stray and induced voltage risks to agriculture
Summary
The ERAD/Somerville subregional commission voted to adopt a Chapter 391 policy requiring proposed high-voltage transmission projects to evaluate and demonstrate they will not create harmful stray or induced voltage on agricultural or pipeline infrastructure and must show emergency-response operations will not be unduly restricted.
The ERAD / Somerville subregional commission voted to adopt additions to a Chapter 391 policy requiring proposed extra-high-voltage transmission projects to evaluate and demonstrate they will not create harmful stray or induced voltage on nearby infrastructure, the chair said at the April 21 meeting.
The policy language, read into the record by the chair, says that ‘‘extra high voltage transmission facilities, including 765 kilovolt transmission lines, may create conditions that contribute to stray or induced voltage on nearby conductive infrastructure, including fences, water systems, pipelines, and agricultural facilities, which may pose risks to livestock, particularly within dairy and confined animal operations.’’ The additions also state projects must…
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