[context: I’m in a small city of 6k people. This stupid town is known for constant power outages due to high wind and snow. Are they stubborn or is it really that hard to switch this small town to underground power so we stop having power outages anytime someone even sneezes?]
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Cost, mainly. It’s not a big problem to just trench in extra utilities in a new subdivision when you’re already laying water sewage and gas, but if you have existing infrastructure to plan around, you need to break up the ground, finished concrete work, et cetera, for limited reliability gains and extra concerns about strikes, vehicular carnage (your transformers are now on a pad), and security.
Your town is better off keeping up with tree pruning prior to winter and upgrading the hydro and internet as required with new longer fibreglass crossbars n such. I live in semi-rural Southern Alberta and have had more reliable hydro out here than in town where it was underground in my neighbourhood.
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