Pennsylvania Eminent Domain
Electric Transmission
Transource and Public Need
Pennsylvania law allows public utility corporations to use eminent domain power when the proposed use is “for the public”.
Transcource – Independence Energy Connection
The proposed route of the Transcource proposed electrical transmission has been determined. Transcource is now expected to attempt to purchase easements.
Transcourse Energy
The Transcourse Energy plan for a high voltage power line in York County is reported to progress to a final route proposal to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission by November 15, 2017.
PPL Williams Grove-Carlisle Transmission Line Project
In January 2016 Mike Faherty spoke to a group of Cumberland County property owners threatened by eminent domain for a proposed new 69-kilovolt transmission line.
