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Or you could just bury the lines
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Burying the lines is $4-5M a mile (at least in the East Bay).
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Possibly, if people clear vegetation so that their panels will work.
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Targeted deployment of distributed generation could be helpful but rooftop solar everywhere is not nearly as valuable as the rate subsidy implies.
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It *might* defer the need to upgrade certain transmission lines due to reduced peak demand for some load pockets, but unless there are areas that are going to go off the grid completely (there aren't), some sort of line is still going to be needed.
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I would guess it might make it more politically viable to turn off the grid temporarily in bad weather, as more people would have backup systems.
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Metal roof too
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CA has surplus power
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The fire risk is from the local distribution lines that often come into contact with trees, not the long distance high-tension lines that run far above most vegetation. And solar panels on a few new homes are not going to eliminate the need for a local electric grid.
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