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The Kraken Loop Project is a proposal by Dominion Energy to construct a new, approximately 70-mile 500-kilovolt (kV) AND a 230 kV transmission line through Louisa, Spotsylvania, Caroline, Stafford, and Fauquier counties. The Kraken lines will go from Lake Anna to the Kraken Substation in Caroline County and will eventually to a proposed substation in Fauquier County. This line is a redundancy line sought to provide power to future AI data centers outside Stafford.

Kraken’s 170 foot tall monopoles require a 120 foot wide right of way access – almost as wide as I-95 — that will require clear cutting of millions of trees, devastating our ecosystems lowering property values, and raising taxes throughout these counties.

Thousands of Stafford’s children are imperiled by the Kraken Loop project. The Kraken’s lines are planned to pass directly over the fields at Mountain View High School, Rodney Thompson Middle School, and Margaret Brent Elementary School.

The Kraken will emit EMF frequencies, which are associated with an increase in childhood leukemia rates.

The Kraken will emit a loud, constant buzz that will distract and upset children with audio sensitivities and may violate Stafford’s noise ordinances. Click play on the video below to hear what similar 500kV lines’ buzz sounds like:

First off, you’re a good person who cares about the community, which is why you’re here on this website, and you know something doesn’t have to be happening in your backyard to be important.

You may not know that the Kraken will decrease property values for hundreds of homes and businesses in the area, which means a loss in tax revenue. Stafford County will have to raise taxes on everyone in order to compensate for that lost tax revenue. That means you will pay higher taxes if the Kraken is built as proposed.

Dominion Energy’s information website is here.

On November 18, 2025, Dominion Energy changed the name of the Kraken Loop project to the North Anna-Kraken. This change broke all of the hyperlinks from its published materials, from any news organization who had covered the project before that date, and to all of the links community members had shared with one another. At about that time, they also published for the first time the proposed width of the Kraken.

This meant that when Dominion Energy met with members of the community, those community members could not know how the Kraken would affect them.

Dominion is also publishing artist’s renditions of what the Kraken will look like to homeowners. These images deliberately downplay the effect of the project. In one case where the Kraken will pass over a children’s play area, the photographer turned around and took a photograph of the road rather than show how closely the lines would be to where children play.

Yes, we believe so. We think that the Kraken can be moved to the south side of Quantico Marine Corps base.

Maybe. Towering Concerns has already successfully lobbied to bury a 230 kV power line in Stafford, and a 500 kV line has been buried in Chino Hills, CA, at far less cost than originally expected. More information about burying the line is found on our Mitigate page.

The Virginia Landmarks Register (VLR) and National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) listings shows a list of affected historic resources along the Kraken Loop route. There are at least approximately 26 Archaeological sites and 31 Buildings, Districts, Structures, and Cemeteries recorded in this Stafford region of the Kraken.

It appears that some FHA lenders will not issue loans or refinance properties within the fall zone of a high voltage power line. Yes, your ability to get a loan to purchase property near the Kraken Loop or to refinance your property near the Kraken could be affected.

No. Dominion representative Andre May told the Stafford School board on December 9, 2025, that the 500 kV Kraken does not have the correct type of hookup to power data centers in Stafford. The Kraken Loop is a transmission line intended to bring power to other data center locations far outside Stafford. The Kraken Loop will not benefit Stafford citizens or businesses in any way.

It’s unclear as of yet how tall the poles will be, but Stafford representative Sergio told the public on October 10, 2025, that the Kraken loop poles would be monopoles estimated to be 170 feet tall.