Patti Poppe staked her legacy at PG&E on a pledge that the company will bury 10,000 miles of power lines. Now, that plan is in jeopardy as regulators debate significantly restricting the number of lines it can bury in the coming years. My latest: wsj.com/business/energ…
@KatherineBlunt For $41/year you could greatly reduce the chances you lose everything in a wildfire. You’d save multiple times that much on homeowners insurance. But no, let’s not do it because $3.40/month is just far too much. The paralysis when facing real issues is astounding.
@KatherineBlunt Even if we bury power lines - with lightning strikes we still need goats 🐐 and controlled burns.
@KatherineBlunt @Sammy_Roth Wait - maybe that would cost too much, take too long, and potentially displace wildlife? Who could have seen that coming? 🫢
@KatherineBlunt The climate changed, we had a record drought, 36 million trees died, fires ensued. PG&E is ordered to remove trees, to underground transmission, to upgrade infrastructure to address the new reality. Ratepayers not so much. We want safe reliable energy at pre climate change prices
@KatherineBlunt @drvolts Is there any $$ in the Inflation Reduction Act for any of this? Sure seems like something that should have been in there.