From Virginia's Commitment comments to the SCC:

"The present Applications therefore embody more than an appeal for approval of a single power line: they solicit the validation of a comprehensive methodology of transmission planning, to be applied in the foreseeable future...the impact of the Commission's decision, whatever it may be, will be felt beyond the interests of the Applicants and the Respondents in this case...that the precedent set here may serve as guidance in the inevitable event of similar future proposals."

You may read the comments in their entirety on the SCC website:

http://docket.scc.virginia.gov/vaprod/main.asp - Click onto "Search Cases" and enter Case # PUE 2007 -00031.