Sixteen elected leaders from Madison and Dane County are asking American Transmission Co. to consider using new technology to boost power on existing high-voltage lines instead of building controversial new lines across the southern half of the county.
….ATC has proposed three routes for a 345-kilovolt line, the north route along the Beltline, the central route through Fitchburg and Verona and the southern route through towns from Christiana to Montrose.