Power lines could be underground
By Hicbd
Mon May 17 2021 11:33 am
"For each of the last three wildfire seasons, including the current one, Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s equipment has been involved in one kind of disaster or another. First, catastrophic infernos. Now, massive blackouts — and possibly another fire. And for each of the last three wildfire seasons, PG&E’s critics have often returned to the same question about the beleaguered company’s equipment: Why isn’t more of it buried underground?...But it’s a very slow and extremely expensive process, costing about $2.3 million a mile on average compared with $800,000 per mile for building new overhead lines, the company says."
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