request. Regional grid manager, PJM Interconnection, "has several times shifted the date by which the line must be in service to address overloads, from 2012 to 2013 and 2014 and, most recently, to June 2015." On December 20, 2010, Allegheny Energy and AEP requested a procedural delay with the Public Service Commission of West Virginia. 2011 On February 28, 2011 PJM Interconnect requested that FirstEnergy (which took control of Allegheny Power on February 25, 2011) and American Electric Power suspend efforts on PATH. "Recent dramatic swings in economic forecasts and evolving public policies, particularly with respect to renewable energy, are adding greater uncertainty to our planning studies," PJM President and CEO Terry Boston said in a prepared statement. American Electric Power's and FirstEnergy Corp withdrew applications for the project in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Dick Ishler, President of the Citizens Against the Kemptown Electrical Substation (CAKES) says this is a huge victory for the little guy; "This is but the latest example of David beating Goliath, concerned citizens banding together, in this case, to stop a toxic coal-fired transmission line." Will Burns, the Sierra Club attorney who has spent hundreds of hours researching the PATH project is optimistic PJM's order will close the PATH project down; "We didn't believe this was needed for reliability reasons. We're hoping this will be the last time this will come back again." However, PJM could revise the decision at a later time, and the PATH project could be renewed. "If they [PJM] come back and say we need PATH, then we can get the project back up and running. . . . The investment we’ve already made won’t be lost though, because the project is not lost – just suspended," said Doug Colafella, manager of external communications for FirstEnergy. 2012 In August 2012, "the board of PJM Interconnection, which oversees the needs and movement of wholesale electricity in the region, formally removed the project from future plans." Kemptown property In December 2008 PATH Allegheny Transmission Company, LLC purchased two contiguous properties in Kemptown, Maryland comprising 152.2 acres for $6.83 million. The properties, actively farmed at the time, were sold by the Browning family which held title to one property as a limited partnership and the other property as a limited liability company. The Kemptown properties are bisected by a high tension electrical transmission line owned by the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company and