Bartow County residents Bruce and Lori Albea examine a map at the Georgia Transmission Corp. open house at the Cartersville-Bartow Chamber of Commerce Oct. 22. Representatives from Georgia Transmission Corp. were on hand to answer questions about a new transmission line at an open house at the Cartersville-Bartow Chamber of Commerce Oct. 22. This map shows the proposed route of a new transmission line, which mostly follows the Bartow/Paulding county line. About 25 people turned out for an Oct. 22 Georgia Transmission Corp. open house regarding a new power line. The event took place at the Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce, 122 W. Main St. It concerns about 5.17 miles of new transmission line in Bartow and Paulding counties, with about 3.84 miles located in Bartow. “This line is feeding the Switch data center campus, but it’s also building reliability over the area,” said Zach Hyers, GTC public affairs manager. “There’s a 500 kV [nearby], so there are existing transmission lines that will feed into the first substation. In this state we have an integrated [power] system, so we’re tying all these lines together for overall system reliability.” It will start at a proposed substation located on the west side of Lucas Lane, about 2.66 miles northwest of the intersection of Lucas Lane and Coleman Road, and will end at a second proposed substation near Pittman Lake. That first substation, called the Brandon Farm Substation, will be on about 114 acres, Hyers said.…
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