RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) has canceled two local public hearings in case number PUE-2015-00053 on Dominion Virginia Power’s proposal to build a 230 kilovolt transmission line loop and substation in Loudoun County in the vicinity of Poland Road.

The hearings had been scheduled for Aug. 18 in Leesburg and Aug. 25 in Chantilly.  In his ruling canceling the hearings, Hearing Examiner Michael D. Thomas said the hearings will be rescheduled to provide the public with the opportunity to comment on routes proposed for the project.

Dominion has applied to the SCC to build an approximately four-mile overhead transmission line between a tap of the existing Loudoun-Brambleton Line and the proposed substation. More information on the project is available here.

Dominion Virginia Power is a subsidiary of Dominion (NYSE: D), one of the nation's largest producers and transporters of energy with operations in 14 states. Dominion has a portfolio of approximately 20,400 megawatts of generation and 6,455 miles of electric transmission lines, and operates one of the nation's largest natural gas storage systems with 928 billion cubic feet of storage capacity and serves utility and retail energy customers in 13 states. For more information about Dominion, visit the company's website at www.dom.com.