----- On Feb 16, 2021, at 5:01 AM, Sean Donelan s...@donelan.com wrote: > On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, Rod Beck wrote: >> Are the power lines buried like in Europe where I live?
They are not buried everywhere. They are buried in most western EU countries perhaps. But I invite you to go to Ferizaj, Kosovo, for example. > In California, they use rolling blackouts BEFORE wildfires to prevent > power line sparking causing wildfires. Not because of damage to the > outside plant. In Texas, they use rolling blackouts because they didn't > have enough generation capacity online. I do remember last September being threatened with rolling power outages as a result of the lack of capacity. Check this article in the Mercury News, for example: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/06/california-grid-managers-watching-closely-as-weather-presents-power-outage-threats/ Thanks, Sabri