Interstate Power Line Moves Ahead

Allegheny Power is developing an interstate electric transmission line, the Trans-Allegheny Interstate Line (TrAIL), across northern West Virginia to carry electricity from West Virginia to the east coast. The project will create more infrastructure for transmission of West Virginia-generated power. While there has been some opposition to the power line, as there always is, the forces fighting the agreement that was reached with the West Virginia Public Utilities Staff and the PSC Consumer Advocate are now smaller, and the project appears poised to go through. You can read about the results of the negotiations before the PSC in an article by Ken Ward at http://wvgazette.com/News/Business/200805300580

If we're to centralize power generation at places where environmental controls can be more effectively imposed, such as power plants that centrally produce electricity for plug-in cars, instead of having individual internal combustion engines in each car, then more power lines are going to be necessary.