The Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline (PATH) was a proposed 290 mile 765 kilovolt[1] electric power transmission line designed to supply power from the Amos Substation in Putnam County, West Virginia, to a proposed electrical substation to be constructed in Frederick County, Maryland.[2] If approved, the transmission line would have been owned and operated by subsidiary companies of Allegheny Energy and the American Electric Power Company. The route proposed would have gone through 13 counties in West Virginia, three counties in Virginia, and Frederick County in Maryland.[3] The endpoint in Maryland would be a proposed electrical substation in Kemptown, Maryland, that would be in a residential area surrounded by about 1,300 houses.[4] The Kemptown substation would have been the largest substation ever built by Allegheny Power.[5] The project was cancelled by PJM Interconnection in 2011.[6]
Application status
2009
Initial applications for regulatory approval to construct the PATH transmission line were filed in 2009. On September 9, 2009, the Maryland Public Service Commission rejected the application as improperly filed.[7] PATH was given 30 days to declare whether they would refile in Maryland, but only announced they were reconsidering their options. On October 19, 2009, the Virginia State Corporation Commission filed a motion to dismiss the PATH application in Virginia, citing inability to adequately analyze the project due to an uncertain Maryland termination point.[8] On October 28, 2009 an attorney for the West Virginia Public Service Commission moved to dismiss the PATH application in West Virginia. Virginia and West Virginia are requesting rejection of the application without prejudice, meaning PATH will be able to refile in those states once they have refiled a proper application in Maryland.[9]
2010
Kemptown property
In December 2008 PATH Allegheny Transmission Company, LLC purchased two contiguous properties in Kemptown, Maryland comprising 152.2 acres for $6.83 million. The properties, actively farmed at the time, were sold by the Browning family which held title to one property as a limited partnership and the other property as a limited liability company. The Kemptown properties are bisected by a high tension electrical transmission line owned by the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company and are adjacent to a second high tension electrical transmission line. The Kemptown property was slated by PATH as the location of a large electrical substation. In September 2010, PATH Allegheny Transmission Company, LLC conveyed the property to PATH Allegheny Maryland Transmission Company, LLC for no consideration.
On August 22, 2017 the two Kemptown properties, along with several other smaller properties in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia were sold at public auction. F.C. Frederick, Inc. a non-profit soccer club based in Frederick Maryland submitted the winning bids on the Kemptown properties. Settlement on the transaction occurred in October 2017 at a price of $1.008 million.
External links
References
- Allegheny Energy, Form 10-Q, Quarterly Report, Filing Date May 7, 2008 secdatabase.com, retrieved Jan 6, 2013^
- Allegheny Energy, Form 10-K, Annual Report, Filing Date Feb 23, 2011 secdatabase.com, retrieved Jan 6, 2013^
- Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline: Maps^