VA. ELEC. & POWER v. CITIZENS FOR SAFE POWER

Record No. 810245.

284 S.E.2d 613 (1981)

VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY v. CITIZENS FOR SAFE POWER, et al.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

December 4, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guy T. Tripp, III, Richmond (Darla B. Tarletz, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, on briefs), for appellant.

William S. Jordan, III, Washington, D. C., Joseph W. Richmond, Charlottesville, A. Lynn Ivey, III, Richmond (Lynne Bernabei, Washington, D. C., Lawrence H. Hoover, Jr., Harrisonburg, Lewis S. Minter, Donald G. Owens, Edward C. Tosh, Richmond, Harmon & Weiss, Richmond & Fishburne, Charlottesville, Hoover, Hoover, Penrod & Davenport, Harrisonburg, on briefs), for appellees.

Before CARRICO, C. J., and HARRISON, COCHRAN, POFF, COMPTON, THOMPSON and STEPHENSON, JJ.


STEPHENSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the State Corporation Commission denying an application by Virginia Electric and Power Company (Vepco) to construct a double circuit 230 kilovolt (kv) transmission line from Remington to Charlottesville. The new line would have replaced a single 115 kv circuit strung on wooden poles approximately 55 feet tall with two 230 kv circuits on steel poles approximately 90...

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