In all the conversation about PG&E's looming bankruptcy, I feel like Californians grossly underestimate the costs of adapting our energy grid to climate change/wildfire. It's $4-5M/mile to underground lines, $5K/stump to remove hazardous trees. PG&E did 451K of them after 2016.
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$5M is actually Berkeley costs so it's likely to be somewhat cheaper in cheaper parts of the state. There's just a mass labor shortage for physically demanding jobs, period. https://www.cityofberkeley.info/Clerk/City_Council/2018/02_Feb/Documents/2018-02-20_WS_Item_03_Conceptual_Study_for_Undergrounding_-_Pres.aspx …
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I’d love to know the number of PG&E’s unfilled manual-labor type job postings from the last year. Hell, even multiple years. I imagine it’s zero. I may be wrong, but if not, you can’t blame an effort to better margins on the labor shortage.
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no anger here. Mostly just explaining the reality of why costs are so high.
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