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October 19, 2023

PG&E wants to bury power lines to prevent wildfires — that's going to cost ratepayers

  • State regulators are balking at the utility's plan because it would take too long and cost $5.9 billion.
    • By ADAM BEAM
    Associated Press

    AP photo/Jeff Chiu [enlarge]
    A Pacific Gas & Electric crew last week works on burying power lines in Vacaville, California.

    VACAVILLE, Calif. — Pacific Gas & Electric — one of the nation's largest utilities whose equipment has sparked some of California's deadliest wildfires — wants to bury power lines in some of its most at-risk areas to prevent destructive blazes like the 2018 Paradise fire that killed 85 people.


     
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