Austin Energy partnered with engineering firm 1898 & Co. to study the feasibility and cost of burying overhead power lines. A second study, focused on hardening existing overhead lines in areas ...

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AUSTIN (KXAN) — Austin Energy (AE) announced two independent studies would determine the underground feasibility and overhead resiliency of Austin’s power lines. The utility said the studies ...

LIPA trustees last month approved a measure that requires all new high-voltage power lines above a certain threshold to be buried rather than placed overhead in a change hailed by politicians but that ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — After a 2023 February ice storm led to hundreds of thousands of Austinites losing power, Austin City Council members voted to move forward on a resolution that asked the city to look ...

Foundations on 37 overhead towers were improved, and older twin conductors were replaced with larger single conductors.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) is in the final month of a project it started in March, moving a mile of overhead power distribution lines to under a stretch of ...