Austin Energy partnered with engineering firm 1898 & Co. to study the feasibility and cost of burying overhead power lines. A second study, focused on hardening existing overhead lines in areas ...
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Residents in the Los Angeles County community of Sylmar said they once again heard popping noises and a loud explosion. Once again, they saw an orange ball of fire erupt, this time on Jan. 7 below a ...
Why aren’t power lines underground? It’s a recurring question as power is restored and months of cleanup begin following Tropical Storm Helene’s destructive march through Aiken County. It’s a question ...
Pacific Gas & Electric — one of the nation's largest utilities whose equipment has sparked some of California's deadliest wildfires — wants to bury power lines in some of its most at-risk areas to ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) is in the final month of a project it started in March, moving a mile of overhead power distribution lines to under a stretch of ...
LIPA trustees last month approved a measure that requires all new high-voltage power lines above a certain threshold to be buried rather than placed overhead in a change hailed by politicians but that ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — After a 2023 February ice storm led to hundreds of thousands of Austinites losing power, Austin City Council members voted to move forward on a resolution that asked the city to look ...
Foundations on 37 overhead towers were improved, and older twin conductors were replaced with larger single conductors.