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Re:Northern California Cities Should Undercut PG&E Now by taneq on Sunday February 09, 2025 @07:23PM (#42995583)
You guys are getting full days without power? That’s disappointing. I’m in Australia and since moving a decade ago to a suburb with underground power, I think we’ve had maybe three or four outages that lasted long enough to notice, and all were fixed within a few hours.
Re:Northern California Cities Should Undercut PG&E Now by nasmorn on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @10:52AM (#43014268)
I frequently visit a farm in Austria on the very end of a rural transmission line that can be cut during storms by tree fall almost every year. I don’t think they have ever been without power for a full day. In Vienna if average something like 8min a year