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For rural Californians, unreliable power has become the norm

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28 points dangle1 | 1 comments | 03 Nov 25 23:43 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bix6 ◴[04 Nov 25 01:34 UTC] No.45806587[source]▶
Wow $3M a mile to bury lines is insane. It sounds like that’s the only solution though?
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1. nonfamous ◴[04 Nov 25 03:17 UTC] No.45807120[source]▶
Part of that cost is decommissioning and removing the existing tower-based system. But PG&E made the call years ago to use that fire-prone implementation to boost profits, and now we are paying for that short-sighted decision.