California’s Crushing Power Bills Challenge Its Climate Goals

September 3, 2024

Bloomberg

Meredith Fowlie, Energy Institute Faculty Director, has her research featured in Bloomberg. She analyzes the costs and benefits of PG&E’s project to bury 10,000 miles of powerlines in Northern California.

Fowlie finds diminishing returns for each incremental mile of wire buried, in the form of rising implied costs per avoided ignition, suggesting other strategies may be more cost effective.”

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