Power line project routes revised, more meetings set
Transource Energy announced this week it has scheduled another round of informational meetings in early August to discuss its planned Independence Energy Connection project’s “refined” routes across southern York and northwestern Harford counties.
The company’s release of the latest potential routes for the high voltage, overhead lines comes as communities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line border between Maryland and Pennsylvania continue to marshal opposition to a project they contend will have little or no benefit to areas that will be crossed by the lines.
A revised map released Monday, however, shows the routes under consideration in Harford County would be west of Route 23 in the Norrisville area, which some residents and the area’s County Council representative have said would have the least unfavorable impact.
The latest round of informational meetings locally will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 9, in the Norrisville Elementary School gymnasium and on Thursday, Aug. 10, in Kennard-Dale High School cafeteria in Fawn Grove, Pa. Both sessions will run from 6 to 9 p.m.
Transource has been hired by the PJM Interconnection, the nation’s largest regional electric supply grid in terms of customers, to help improve reliability in the distribution network, a mounting concern nationwide according to utility companies, economists and environmental groups. PJM’s grid serves 13 states, including Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Wednesday, however, Abby Foster, a Transource spokesperson, said the project is no related to improving grid reliability, but is about “market efficiency” and reducing a power gridlock.
Transource has been hired by the PJM Interconnection, the nation’s largest regional electric supply grid in terms of customers, to help improve reliability in the distribution network, a mounting concern nationwide according to utility companies, economists and environmental groups. PJM’s grid serves 13 states, including Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Wednesday, however, Abby Foster, a Transource spokesperson, said the project is no related to improving grid reliability, but is about “market efficiency” and reducing a power gridlock.
