What are special vulnerabilities of underground and overhead electric service? Why doesn’t YEC bury all overhead power lines?

Over­head ser­vices are more exposed to ice, high winds and fly­ing debris. Under­ground facil­i­ties are sub­ject to flood­ing. Dam­age to an over­head trans­former is often eas­i­er to find. Dam­age to a pad mount­ed trans­former serv­ing under­ground cable may not be read­i­ly vis­i­ble. Under­ground lines are sus­cep­ti­ble to dam­age from dig­ging and trench­ing equip­ment. And the cost of installing and main­tain­ing under­ground con­duc­tor over hun­dreds of miles of sparse­ly pop­u­lat­ed rur­al areas would result in an enor­mous increase in the cost of elec­tric­i­ty to you.

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