Buried Power Lines

[Cookie]

Why are MV and LV powerlines in the UK buried underground? Same for Europe? Does it cost more to bury them?

 

[snowhead]

don't want towers and lines - over my dead body.

What!, you want to remove these towers and lines - over my dead body......

Not forgetting,

What!, you want to replace them with Wind turbines and fill the fields full of P.V panels, that's O.K then.

Don't want Wind turbines or P.V panels - over my dead body......

 

[Cookie]

To be clear I'm not thinking pylons, but everything 34.5kv and below.

 

[Cookie]

Yup,

don't want towers and lines - over my dead body.

What!, you want to remove these towers and lines - over my dead body......

In fairness, en-5 still follows the Holford rules, so not much change in guidance since the 1950's!
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Ptpg presented "alternative" cost estimates on the use of ugc vs ohl - obviously on the basis they want cables, and don't actually have to deliver it for their cost estimates - it's somewhat over simplistic.

However, the paper does include the more realistic costs from sp manweb that they are challenging

Thanks for that paper! Its interesting to read such publications.

 

[Julie.]

To be clear I'm not thinking pylons, but everything 34.5kv and below.

In the uk the're actually called towers if metallic and poles if timber, for some reason the public uses the term pylon if metalic and "telegraph" poles if timber.

(Probably the same way people say someone who has a nose-ring - has an "ear"-ring in their nose!!)

Under en-5 there is no separation between transmission or distribution in terms of applying holford rules.

So the same philosophy applies to transmission towers/poles and distribution towers/power poles.