Homes and viewsheds
Taller steel structures could change daily views, property enjoyment, neighborhood character, and the experience of living near the corridor.
The project
Project corridor
Charlottesville to Gordonsville
Filed with SCC
April 23, 2026
SCC case number
PUR-2026-00050
Dominion project website
Dominion project page
Dominion photo simulations
Compare existing and proposed views.
Use the slider to review Dominion's public before-and-after visualizations.
Existing
Proposed
Dominion simulation 1 of 5. Existing conditions vs proposed conditions, June 26, 2024, viewing south.
Dominion notes: "Photo simulations are for discussion purposes only. Final design is subject to change pending public, engineering, and regulatory review."
Existing structures
about 56 ft
Proposed structures
average 112 ft - exactly double
Tallest proposed
up to 150 ft
Community stakes
What's at stake?
The visible towers are only one part of the issue. Residents need clear answers about local impacts, long-term exposure questions, route choices, project cost, and who benefits before permanent changes are approved.
Construction and clearing
Residents need clear answers about access, tree clearing, noise, restoration, construction timing, and how specific streets and homes will be affected.
Health and long-term exposure
Residents deserve project-specific answers about expected field levels, distance from homes and schools, and how lower-impact alternatives were evaluated.
Historic, scenic, and environmental resources
Pantops sits within a broader landscape of historic, scenic, conservation, and cultural resources. The SCC review should fully account for those impacts.
Costs and ratepayer fairness
Dominion states the conceptual project cost is about $97 million in 2025 dollars. Residents deserve to know who pays, who benefits, and what precedent this sets for future transmission upgrades.
Questions residents deserve answered
What should the public record explain?
Before the SCC decides this case, residents deserve plain-language answers about need, alternatives, cost, and whether avoidable impacts can be reduced.
Need and transparency
What is driving the need for this rebuild?
Alternatives and mitigation
Has Dominion evaluated targeted undergrounding or other mitigation in the most affected residential areas?
Costs and benefits
Who benefits, who pays, and who bears the impacts?
Community question
Why should neighborhoods absorb avoidable impacts without full public review?
Route map
Find your home, street, or commute on the route map.
Use Dominion's interactive route map to see how the proposed corridor relates to Fontana, Pantops, Route 20, Richmond Road, nearby neighborhoods, and surrounding areas.
The more residents understand where the route runs, the easier it is to document real local impacts and submit specific comments. If you sign into the GeoVoice portal, you can also see community comments along the corridor and submit your own map-based comment for Dominion's project team to review.
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If the map does not load here, open the full Dominion GeoVoice map.
Virginia data center crisis
Virginia's grid is being reshaped by data-center demand.
This is not just a Pantops issue. Data-center growth is driving new transmission lines, substations, generation, and power corridors across Virginia. Residents deserve to know who benefits, who pays, and what lower-impact alternatives were seriously evaluated before permanent changes are approved.
Development pipeline
15.4 GW
Cushman & Wakefield says Virginia is a top established data-center market in the Americas, with 15.4 GW in development.
Source: Cushman & Wakefield Contracted power 51 GWPEC reports Dominion has agreed to supply 51 GW of contracted power to future data centers.
Source: Piedmont Environmental Council Requested power demand 70 GWVirginia Business reports data-center requests totaling about 70,000 MW of power, citing a Dominion SCC filing.
Source: Virginia Business