re: City Council passes package of measures to probe Entergy New Orleans' Ida response

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make no effort to underground or clear trees from power lines in cities?

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This has been beat to death that underground is barely feasible in the city. Go dig a hole 2’ deep and look what your left with it’s either chock full of trash , on top of other utilities, or your at the water table. you aren’t putting electrical utilities in a trench and you really don’t want to see the cost of a directional bore .

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Do you think it's okay for Entergy to continue to replace janky arse poles with janky arse poles

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They were actually in the process of upgrading transmission lines in the NOLA area when Laura hit. Resources (including materials) slated for that project got diverted to replacing damaged infrastructure in the Lake Charles area. Then, they had started the work in NOLA again when Ida hit. In other words - the transmission lines that failed are not being replaced with the same “janky arse poles.”

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and make no effort to underground

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This has been covered ad nauseum. At this point if you don’t understand why it isn’t happening, you are either intentionally ignoring the people explaining it or you will just never understand.

One thing to note - whenever new neighborhoods are built with underground lines, the developer foots that bill.

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or clear trees from power lines in cities

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I don’t know how anyone can possibly think they are making “no effort” to clear trees from power lines. I have seen a more concerted effort from Entergy and their contractors to clear trees from lines in my neighborhood over the past 2-3 years than I saw in the 2 decades prior. Hell, my dad who lives in the boonies was pissed because they came and cut back the live oaks along the line that feeds his sub-pole - and that only affects one customer in the middle of nowhere.

I’m not some kind of mouthpiece for Entergy. I’ve seen them half-arse projects on the generation side (non-nuclear) because they were being cheap. But from what I’ve seen, they have done a pretty damned good job on the distribution side over the past few years.

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Do you think it's okay for Entergy to continue to replace janky arse poles with janky arse poles and make no effort to underground or clear trees from power lines in cities?

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Agree on the weak poles, but is it cost effective, or even structurally effective to improve the poles?

Do you understand how insanely expensive underground electrical of that size would be?

A poster earlier in this thread stated there is a significant amount of vegetation regulation. Is that true? If so, isn’t that the city’s fault?