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"text": "Robert McClellan was featured in POWER Magazine to discuss how undergrounding power lines can improve grid resilience and reduce wildfire risk "
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The power generation sector, including electric utilities and grid operators, recognizes the value of moving equipment underground to mitigate outages, lessen risks to assets, and reduce the chances of that equipment causing a wildfire.
Electric utilities and power grid operators increasingly are looking at ways to diminish and avoid disruptions from extreme weather. The power sector also has experience with the financial impacts of wildfires, both with damage to assets and losses incurred when equipment is found liable for causing those events.
In POWER Magazine, Robert McClellan, transmission team leader at Stantec, discusses how undergrounding power lines can reduce outages and wildfire risk while highlighting where it’s most effective.
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