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Austin Energy aims to ramp up tree trimming after years of 'playing catch-up'
(communityimpact.com)
They should ramp up burying the lines instead.
this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2023
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That comes with a whole other list of problems, starting off with it costing 4-10x as much to install.
Would be worth the cost.
You're willing to pay significantly higher bills to bury more lines so you don't experience a rare outage?
I’m willing to pay slightly more to bury the lines bit by bit every month so we don’t end up with the greenbelt on fire like what happened in California.
It amazes me that no one complains about the cost of burying gas lines, water lines, and sewer lines — but somehow it’s just too expensive to bury power lines.
The city is burying lines bit by bit. More than 50% of AE's lines are already buried, and the city especially tries to bury lines with all new home and road construction, just like those other 3 are buried with new construction. What is much more expensive is burying them after the fact, which requires tearing up existing infrastructure. Also, building and maintaining the gas, water, and sewer infrastructure is incredibly expensive but literally necessary, where burying electric transmission lines is not necessary. If you've ever had to have work done to repair a sewer line you know how much more expensive, labor intensive, destructive, and time consuming that work is than anything electrical
That appears to be true with all the new builds in southeast. I see very few transmission lines and lots of road side boxes in the new developments around me
Aesthetically, maybe.