overhead wires

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Undergrounding electric wires can cost more than $6 million per mile, according to the state Public Utilities Commission, far more than building overhead wires.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

These include more than 120 trees on tracks, damaged overhead wires, power supply failures and other objects and debris blown onto the line.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2025

For instance, multiple lawsuits allege Edison’s equipment ignited the deadly Eaton fire after the utility failed to de-energize overhead wires during a Jan. 7 wind event.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2025

This allows it to use up to 50% less fuel when running on lines with no overhead wires.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2024

Pointlessly, ridiculously, they rose and walked about the table; seen thus, all that they did appeared incongruous—it was as though they were being jiggled carelessly and to no purpose by invisible overhead wires.

From The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)