Colleen Murach, a Con Edison technical associate, removes an infrared camera from its packaging for an underground crew working on a Brooklyn street. Two components are essential to the transmission ...

PG&E’s Strategy PG&E will spend US$ 15 billion to US$ 30 billion to underground the first 10% of its system. The utility plans to have 3600 miles (5794 km) of line placed underground by 2026, bringing ...

Still, while underground lines suffer a third of the outages as overhead ones, they take twice as long to repair. Specifically, under-grounding is about $80,000 a mile in rural areas and $2.1 ...

There is a critical distinction between the New York City power grid and that of much of Florida. The New York City grid is mostly underground – 93,000 miles, or 75% of the total grid.

A once-overlooked technology that taps into the Earth's heat to generate electricity could supply up to 20% of the electricity in the United States by 2050, according to a new Princeton analysis.

New York's Con Edison is a dichotomy of new and old: The roots of its massive urban infrastructure can be dated back to Thomas Edison, but it's also on the forefront of smart grid technology.

On-Ramp will connect below-ground distribution grid sensors with a fixed installed network in partnership with San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison The system will use on-Ramp's ...

It may already be happening. Another Houston-based company, Sage Geosystems, recently announced a $17 million 3-megawatt system to support the Texas grid.

According to Lake, underground lines cost roughly $1 million per mile. “In addition, maintenance on underground power lines is also challenging,” Lake told KXAN in 2023.