A simple — yet expensive — way to climate-proof the grid: Bury the power lines
via cubofmichigan.org
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Power lines across the country weren’t designed for a changing climate, with much of the nation’s grid built more than half a century ago. Today, stronger storms and heavier precipitation cause hundreds of outages a year, many because of trees falling on above-ground power lines. In northern Michigan, some utilities want to change that. In […]