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A council is being advised not to oppose plans to replace 27 miles (43km) of overhead power lines despite a campaign to have them put underground.
Opponents want the Kendoon to Tongland cables to be buried to reduce their environmental and tourism impact.
However, Scottish Power Energy Networks (SPEN) said this would add more than £90m to the cost of the upgrade.
Dumfries and Galloway Council planning officers have advised the authority not to object to the scheme.
In a 35-page report on the project, they concluded it would have limited significant landscape, visual and cumulative effects which were insufficient to justify opposition.
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