Burying lines is $3-5 million a mile. PG&E used to have a 20A program where the utility would offer grants for undergrounding but it was suspended due to mismanagement.https://www.ktvu.com/news/money-slated-to-put-pge-power-lines-underground-was-diverted-for-years-2-investigates …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @drvox
Also the size of that fund -- $246M -- haha, what would that cover? Like 80 miles of undergrounding?
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So instead there's a 20B program where property owners can self-fund undergrounding. But guess what needs to happen for that to pass? It's like a 20-step process where you've got to get something like 2/3s of the parcel owners to vote to underground.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @drvox
And that’s parcel owners, not residents. So if you have some trust sitting there for ages and the trustees live God knows where, you’ve got to track them down to vote as well.
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So try getting 2/3s or whatever of all the owners in your neighborhood agreeing to pay >$2K year to underground.... what kind of organizing that would take. How do you convince holdouts, who are often very, very old and cash poor and don’t see the point, etc.?
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