Pepco's MAPP Transmission Line Project Faces Year Delay
2009年5月20日 - 5:50AM
Dow Jones News
Pepco Holdings Inc. (POM) will delay the completion of a
high-voltage transmission project by one year and scale back its
length as power demand slumps.
Pepco's Mid-Atlantic Power Pathway, or MAPP, will go into
service in June 2014 instead of 2013. The high-voltage line will
run 150 miles from northern Virginia, across southern Maryland, to
near Millsboro, Del. The announcement Tuesday follows a
recommendation by the PJM Interconnection, which runs the power
grid in the Mid-Atlantic states and parts of the Southeast and
Midwest.
Pepco also said Tuesday it's reducing the size of the
transmission project, eliminating a proposed section from near
Millsboro to Salem, N.J. The estimated cost of the project will
drop to $1.2 billion from $1.4 billion.
The MAPP project is the second major transmission project in PJM
to face delays because of slumping demand. Last month, American
Electric Power Co. (AEP) and Allegheny Energy Inc. (AYE) announced
a one-year delay in their proposed transmission project from
southwestern West Virginia to central Maryland.
-By Mark Peters, Dow Jones Newswires; 201-938-4604;
mark.peters@dowjones.com