PATH Transmission Line Plans Indefinitely Suspended

In 2007 American Electric Power and FirstEnergy Corp  proposed building a transmission line from the John Amos Power plant in Putnam County across West Virginia and part of Virginia to a substation in Maryland. The Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline, or PATH, was intended  to meet future power demands in the East by transmitting West Virginia power along the new transmission line. Brian Farkas of AP reports that plan has come asunder, due to lower demand for power brought about by the recession.