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Palo Alto accelerating utility undergrounding and transmission upgrades to reduce wildfire risk
Summary
The city's new utilities director described a grid modernization program that includes nearly 9.3 miles of utility undergrounding (about 80% complete), new transmission connections and investments in water system backup and fiber to pump stations.
Al Goren Torre, Palo Alto's utilities director, told neighbors the city is expanding its grid modernization and undergrounding program to improve reliability and reduce wildfire risk in foothills areas.
"We've been working with the California ISO to bring a transmission corridor coming from the South," Al Goren Torre said, describing a new supply path into the city's Colorado receiving station that will add redundancy. "That will have a new supply coming into Palo Alto... so in an event that we have a power outage... we'll have another source of electricity coming into Palo Alto."
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