[BC] Power transmission methodologies

[Dave Dunsmoor]

> >It's been a number of years since I've had to price a power run, but ISTR
> >that PG&E was charging about $10 a foot overhead and somewhat more than
that
> >to underground lines.
>
> Underground costs the utility ten to fourteen times the cost of overhead,
> per unit length.


Well, my point (question?) is that it seems to me that being that there is
buried power
some places, and not others (in the same county, same state), that it would
make real
good sense to bury it all. Yes, up front costs might be higher, although I
don't immediately
see how it could be much more than all the labor and pole costs per mile to
run a plow.

But the point is, then it only has to be done once. In my many years of
being concerned about