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There's been a change of routing for the high-voltage electrical transmission PATH project.
The $2-billion Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline being funded by American Electric Power and Allegheny Energy was originally set to run from Putnam County to Berkeley County.
Allegheny spokesman Allen Staggers says a change was made last week.
"We're going to run just a single 765,000 volt line from the [John] Amos sub-station to Kemptown, Maryland."
"So what that's going to do is eliminate the connection with the Bedington substation that was outside of Martinsburg," he said.
Staggers indicates further study is the reason for the change.
"We found that not only getting in and getting out of the Bedington substation there were a lot of constraints routing two lines. It was just causing a lot of impact both to the communities and the environment," he said.
Staggers says now that routes in some parts of the eastern panhandle and Washington Co., Maryland have been eliminated.
It appears the next few months will be spent looking for a new mid-point substation somewhere in Grant, Hardy or Hampshire counties.
There will be a slow down for the estimated 244-mile project.
The original plan was to go before the state regulatory committees in December.
The project's anticipated completion date has been sometime in 2012. | 
