How do we know the Kraken Loop Right of Way is intended to eventually include two high voltage lines?

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Topic starter 23/01/2026 4:28 pm

Dominion told us so.

Stafford citizens noticed that the proposed electrical line was off of center within the proposed right of way early in the public outreach time period although all of Dominion's written messaging defines the Kraken as a single 500 kV line: "The Project includes building a new, approximately 70-mile 500-kilovolt (kV) transmission line through Louisa, Spotsylvania, Caroline, Stafford, and Fauquier counties."

After a later review of initial Kraken meetings, citizens discovered that Dominion Representative Sergio had already confirmed their suspicions about a second line during the very first Kraken online meeting on October 9, 2025. Here's what he said from the transcript:

"Robert E Richardson"
Hey Sergio, can I ask you to come back on, on camera? Couple of, couple
of questions I think that have your name on them. One of them is that we,
as we, as we looks like we route across this project routes across the
Rapahannock River. And so there were some questions about towers. Do we need to add
towers? Can we add, can we add the, these transmission circuits to the
existing towers? I, I know some of the answers to, to those, but I know
you know the answers better. Can you, can you talk about as we route
across the Rapahannock River what's necessary.

"Sergio"
Yeah, so we will need to route using new structures instead of adding the
circuits to the existing towers. The existing towers are 500 kV. We're
trying to add to the right away 500 kV and a 230 kV line. This towers
are not designed to handle any additional circuits, they're just designed
to handle the existing circuit. So any any additional circuits
would need to be added in the right away using its own structures. It
would be not towers as we, not, not Lattice towers per se, but monopoles.

"Robert E Richardson"
And, and that's let's let's talk about those structures for, for just a
second. That's a good, that's a good question. So the the the type of
structure that we're planning to use for, for most of this 70 miles is what
we would call a a double circuit monopole. You want to describe that structure
and why, why it's a, why it's a double circuit structure?

"Sergio"
So the the reason is so that in terms of describing it, so it's steel
galvanized steel structure monopole on a concrete foundation, a drilled
peer. It's a vertical configuration type structure which means the
circuit is configured ABC vertically Instead of what we have right now
out there would be horizontal
configuration all the face are horizontally aligned. The reason why we
need a 500 / 230 kV line is you know planning here identified the need
for for that type of circuits to be added to the right away in this case,
A 500 KB and a 230 kV line. The reason for the type of structure to be,
you know, selected for this application is because of the we want to be
able to fit this configuration in the existing right away. So a monopole
configuration allows us to do that. If we were to do other types of
configuration or to break it down into one type of
structure per per circuit, then that adds additional right away
requirements to meet clearances and, you know, for safety reasons, we
would, we would need to expand the right away. So for us to be able to
work with what right of way we already have, this is the most compact type and
not require additional right away expansion on this location.