Why is Valley Link Terminating in the Middle of Nowhere ??
- paulBVL

- Feb 26
- 1 min read
Anyone else wondering why in the world Valley Link is terminating the 115 mile 765KV power line in the middle of nowhere in eastern Culpeper county ?
Nothing screams "urgent infrastructure need" like plunking a massive $1 billion, 115-mile, 765 kV superhighway of power lines right into the middle of nowhere in eastern Culpeper County. Truly genius move. Why connect it to an actual population center or existing load when you can just drop a shiny new substation called "Yeat" (because why not name it after internet slang?) in the middle of heavily forested area near Richardsville? Clearly, that's where the huge demand is right now—squirrels, deer, and the occasional confused farmer all desperately waiting for enough juice to power two million hypothetical homes. Surely this has zero to do with funneling bulk power from way out west (or the Ohio Valley via existing lines) straight up to feed the endless hunger of Northern Virginia's data center boom. Nope, just pure coincidence that Dominion and friends are building this beast to "strengthen the grid" while the real growth is nowhere near that endpoint. But hey, who needs current customers when you've got future quarterly earnings to chase? Priorities, people. Priorities.




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