KTVU KTVU FOX 2 News At Noon July 14, 2024
49 towers needed to be replaced entirely. The journal says a 2017 internal presentation by pg e, estimated their transmission towers were 68 years old with the oldest towers being 108 years old. The Life Expectancy was 65 years. Pg e neglected and failed to make up grades. Since the campfire in the past year, pg e worked to intensify the inspections on transmission lines in the last year, pg e inspected 222 substations, 50,000 transmission structures, 30,500 miles of power lines and 700,000 distribution poles. We brought in more than 2000 qualified linemen outside of california to help us with...