Burying all the power lines in Austin would cost $50 billion, study finds
After an ice storm knocked out power for hundreds of thousands in February 2023, the city looked into what it would take to ...
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Burying Austin's power lines would cost $50 billion (and is pretty much impossible)
A new report finds burying lines would be expensive and infeasible given Austin's rocky topsoil. The city commissioned the ...
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City of Tucson denies TEP a special exception for overhead power lines
(KGUN) — As cars drove past her, Betsy Larson put up a sign on the side of the road promoting underground power lines. She’s against TEP’s proposed plan that would have put overhead power ...
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Austin Energy considers burying miles of power lines to reduce outages, maintenance
A new study into power line undergrounding will be followed by a report on making overhead lines more resilient.