The proposed line heads up Britain's west coast, with spurs running to Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool.
The proposed line would have a capacity of 1,000 megawatts, roughly half that of the Indian Point plant.
But the idea for such a line is not universally supported in all the municipalities through which the proposed line would run.
The third proposed line, the West Shore, would run from West Nyack, N.Y., in Rockland County, through eastern Bergen to Hoboken.
The proposed line does indeed avoid most of Osborne's constituency, though it intrudes on its northern edge, not least when it comes to the village of Pickmere.
The proposed line would also run through the Abanico del Rio Pastaza, a huge wetlands complex stretching across the border into Ecuador.
But a state-sponsored ridership study, which was released this week, concluded that the proposed line would actually have been a money-maker from the start.
The hydroelectric energy moving through the proposed line would be among the least expensive in the stack of supply offers, Mr. Jessome said.
Residents of Denton County, north of Fort Worth, worry that a proposed line could cross landmarks like a park area called the Greenbelt or a Girl Scout camp.
But during arguments on Tuesday on the limits the Constitution places on punitive damages, the proposed line between the permissible and the unconstitutional was so fine that the justices appeared close to giving up.
The Environment Ministry (MINAM) has expressed grave concern about the proposed line and, in a report sent to MINEM in February, recommended considering an alternative route that would have less impact on the Abanico del Pastaza.
