Energy Solutions: PUUN – Put Utilities Underground NOW!

PUUN – Put Utilities Underground NOW! World Wide Power Outages by Country

Every year millions are without power due storms that constantly knockout our obsolete utilities infrastructure. There is no compassion by our state, local, and federal governments to deal with an issue that occurs every year when hurricanes, tornadoes, winter and summer storms hit every part of the country. Many people in Washington D.C., Baltimore, all New England states, have their power interrupted for days at a time when a snow storm hit. If you see this copy of a charge from 15 years of power outages you can see how people are constantly threatened by recurrent weather activity in this country. I would think people would get tired of being out of power every year in some areas in the winter time because of snow or rain blowing down power lines on a continuous basis. Read the links at the bottom to see how much information has been compile on power usage and outages in the United States compared to the rest of the world.

September	9/11/2016	12:05 PM	9/11/2016	3:10 PM	Connecticut: Massachusetts: New Hampshire: Rhode Island: Vermont: Maine:	NPCC	Loss of electric service to more than 50,000 customers for 1 hour or more	Severe Weather	Unknown	57960
October	10/02/2016	11:30 PM	10/05/2016	8:00 AM	Utah:	WECC	Public appeal to reduce the use of electricity for purposes of maintaining the continuity of the electric power system	Transmission Interruption	50	4000
October	10/06/2016	7:30 PM	10/8/2016	6:00 PM	Florida:	FRCC	Loss of electric service to more than 50,000 customers for 1 hour or more	Severe Weather	5600	1200000
October	10/07/2016	8:00 AM	10/09/2016	1:00 PM	Florida: Alachua County, Bay County, Citrus County, Columbia County, Dixie County, Franklin County, Gilchrist County, Gulf County, Hamilton County, Hardee County, Hernando County, Highlands County, Jefferson County, Lafayette County, Lake County, Levy County, Madison County, Marion County, Orange County, Osceola County, Pasco County, Pinellas County, Polk County, Seminole County, Sumter County, Suwannee County, Taylor County, Volusia County, Wakulla County;	FRCC	Loss of electric service to more than 50,000 customers for 1 hour or more	Severe Weather	413	165000
October	10/07/2016	4:22 PM	10/12/2016	11:00 AM	Georgia:	SERC	Loss of electric service to more than 50,000 customers for 1 hour or more	Severe Weather	122	36384
October	10/07/2016	10:45 PM	Unknown	Unknown	Florida:	FRCC	Loss of electric service to more than 50,000 customers for 1 hour or more	Severe Weather	Unknown	Unknown
October	10/07/2016	11:00 PM	Unknown	Unknown	South Carolina: Allendale County, Bamberg County, Beaufort County, Berkeley County, Charleston County, Chesterfield County, Clarendon County, Colleton County, Darlington County, Dorchester County, Florence County, Georgetown County, Hampton County, Horry County, Jasper County, Kershaw County, Lee County, Marion County, Marlboro County, Orangeburg County, Richland County, Sumter County, Williamsburg County;	SERC	Uncontrolled loss of 300 Megawatts or more of firm system loads for more than 15 minutes from a single incident Loss of electric service to more than 50,000 customers for 1 hour or more	Severe Weather	Unknown	Unknown
October	10/08/2016	8:21 AM	10/13/2016	5:30 PM	North Carolina: South Carolina:	SERC	Loss of electric service to more than 50,000 customers for 1 hour or more	Severe Weather	Unknown	Unknown
October	10/08/2016	2:05 PM	10/09/2016	6:06 AM	North Carolina:	SERC	Uncontrolled loss of 300 Megawatts or more of firm system loads for more than 15 minutes from a single incident	Severe Weather	Unknown	44875
October	10/08/2016	1:10 AM	Unknown	Unknown	South Carolina:	SERC	Loss of electric service to more than 50,000 customers for 1 hour or more	Severe Weather	1050	290824
November	11/01/2016	8:55 PM	Unknown	Unknown	Washington: Clark County;	WECC	Electrical System Separation (Islanding) where part or parts of a power grid remain(s) operational in an otherwise blacked out area or within the partial failure of an integrated electrical system	Transmission Interruption	0	0
December	12/30/2016	2:30 AM	12/30/2016	7:00 PM	Maine:	NPCC	Loss of electric service to more than 50,000 customers for 1 hour or more	Weather or Natural Disaster	Unknown	85263

Popular Mechanics ran an article years ago after Hurrican Sany let 6 million with power. That number could have been zero if (PUUN) were implemented. How do the citizens get the utility companies to listen to the people. They refuse to spend the money needed to safeguard their utitlites. We all pay for cable, water, garbage, and electricity; but the corporations that run them refuse to implement a long term solution to the cyclical problem.

Here are cost breakdown from Popular Mechanics, "In a new suburban neighborhood, installing ordinary overhead power lines costs about $194,000 per mile on average. Installing underground power lines would cost $571,000 per mile. And to retrofit an older suburban neighborhood with underground lines, the costs climb up to an average of $724,000 per mile."

It has always been about money, pay less now for overhead power lines, and let people suffer and constantly replace power poles every year will add up to twice as much as if they were all put underground in the first place. It is similar to people who buy the cheapest appliance and end up replacing after a year. We have lost our way of quality and reliability over quick cheap fixes for everything.

Undergrounding was adopted by many European nations, Germany with a population of 82 million. The Netherlands with just 16.7 million people. The German power grid has outages of only 21 minutes a year. When you see the charts of the average duration of power outages in other countries.