Couple of points

Originally posted by pintohoo ↑

1.
A 2020 report by AusNet Services — the organisation charged with maintaining the state's transmission system — found the average 500kV transmission structure was built 41.4 years ago.
It also showed that about a third of the state's transmission towers are now approaching their 60th birthdays.

So, nope - not Albo's fault or Dan's fault ------- just a whole system fault - decades of not keeping up with things ----- decades of not investing - decades of profit making and cut cut cut ---------- no nation was ever built on cut cut cut -------------------- don't champion government low debt - champion investing in a nation - and use debt - it's ok

2.
''In 2020, Sydney power company Ausgrid did the numbers on undergrounding its entire network — which only takes up a portion of NSW — ringing in the final cost at somewhere between $72-130 billion, and taking 40 years to complete.
"It costs about $2.5 million per kilometre to put wires underground, which is 15 times more expensive than the cost of above-ground wiring," the company said.''

and there is the problem -------------- Ozzies look at the cost first - always the cost ---------- never the benefits

how much does it cost to shut down entire communities for days to weeks ------- over and over and over and over?

in the end ------ you need power and atm, one needs it moved about -------- there's a cost to it ---

but, there's a bigger cost to it when wind blows down your old infrastructure --------- if it blows down things often enough - then, the investment in underground and the like --------- begins to look cheap

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-15/weather-power-lines-electricity-fall-over-explainer/103471752

I'd also be asking exactly why it costs 2.5 mil to put lines underground ------ it costs very little to dig a trench - and the wires can be the same surely - just wrapped in different kinds of protection ----------- is that really a big deal - 2.5 million per km?

last time I put things in trenches in kilometres ------------ it wasn't anywhere near 2.5 m per km --------- but, yes, cable is expensive ----------------- but, so is cable strung between big poles

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