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If there is such a need to put it through state land, then it can be paid to put it underground to not have to continually spray herbicides to keep the weeds do
by downvotetruth 4y ago
If there is such a need to put it through state land, then it can be paid to put it underground to not have to continually spray herbicides to keep the weeds down. But, that would cut into Avangrid's profits, and they have been known for substandard customer service & after storm line work. If they want to offer state level service, then the state should own the line. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29100131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29100131 108 comments & https://www.eenews.net/articles/embattled-maine-power-line-foreshadows-u-s-climate-obstacles/ https://www.eenews.net/articles/embattled-maine-power-line-f...
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- woodruffw 4y agoI'm having trouble parsing this sentence: are you saying the federal government doesn't want to pay for the line? Or that they won't pay for some version of it?
- downvotetruth 4y agoProposal is for the Maine line to be privately owned. Outside of the Western Area Power Administration, the generation and transmission equipment is currently owned, operated and maintained by a consortium of private industrial companies called Independent System Operators or Regional Transmission Organizations (ISOs/RTOs) administered competitively under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) program of the DOE. https://www.quora.com/Does-the-government-own-all-power-lines https://www.quora.com/Does-the-government-own-all-power-line...
- Spooky23 4y agoIt has nothing to do with herbicide, just some bullshit. As with most successful rural populist movements, you follow the money. The company who owns a nuclear plant in New Hampshire funded the opposition to competition.
- andromeduck 4y agoLong range transmission is expensive enough as it is without needing to be buried.
- downvotetruth 4y agoForest fires are expensive too.
- andromeduck 4y agoPG&E's problems arise from poor maintenance and mismanagement owing to their ostensibly privately run but not really ownership/governance structure.