The Mid-Atlantic Power Pathway is dead.
PJM Interconnection says that its staff will recommend the MAPP project should be removed from its regional transmission plans along with the Potomac Appalachian Transmission Highline.
The power transmission company said that updated analysis has found there is no longer a need for the projects citing a slowing economy.
In addition, PJM said that the addition of nearly 20-thousand megawatts in power generation and demand response resources offset plans to retire around 16-thousand megawatts of coal-fired plants over the next few years.
The proposed $1.4 billion MAPP transmission line would have run 230-miles from Virginia through Delmarva and up into New Jersey producing 500-kilovolts worth of power.
Both lines ran into delays especially in Dorchester County where local residents raised serious opposition to power lines crossing the country side.
The Community & Environmental Defense Services which acted as a facilitator in the dispute said the delays caused by citizens raising questions about the impact on farms homes and the environment would have allowed the project to move forward before knowing that it was no longer needed.
