Neighborhoods with underground power lines?

[Anonymous]

Capitol Quarter in the Navy Yard has this and we have not lost power for weather ever.

[Anonymous]

Georgetown.

[Anonymous]

In Washington, much of Woodley Park, Spring Valley and Kalorama also have buried lines.

I agree that this should be a priority. With buried lines, you can have both reliable power AND a healthy tree canopy (not those unstable trees hollowed out by PEPCOs hired butchers). And a dense tree canopy enhances power reliability in other ways by cooling the city and reducing power demand on hot summer days, thereby also reducing the potential of power brownouts and blackouts.

[Anonymous]

Cleveland park, too.

[Anonymous]

All of Burke. We still lose power a lot though.

[Anonymous]

Plus one re the feeder lines. My family lives near avenel in bethesda and the lines in their neighborhood are underground, but they lose power a lot. We live in arlington with above ground lines and generally don't. And I have never lived anywhere that lost power as much as where I grew up, which also had underground lines (but above ground feeders).

[Anonymous]

I am not so much worried about losing power (even though it is inconvenient.). I just think it looks kind of junky to have above ground power lines. My German neighbor commented that our Bethesda neighborhood "reminded her of Mexico City" when she moved here because of the above ground power lines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Capitol Hill is not new at all, but the power lines are all underground. Never lost power once in the 15 years I lived there.

Op is probably looking for a real house not a row house

Well, then she can enjoy it in the dark.

Meanwhile, here on the Hill we'll be watching the story on the news and wondering, as always, "Why would anyone pay a fortune to live with electricity that is less reliable than in most parts of the third world?"

Or she could buy a generator

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In Washington, much of Woodley Park, Spring Valley and Kalorama also have buried lines.

I agree that this should be a priority. With buried lines, you can have both reliable power AND a healthy tree canopy (not those unstable trees hollowed out by PEPCOs hired butchers). And a dense tree canopy enhances power reliability in other ways by cooling the city and reducing power demand on hot summer days, thereby also reducing the potential of power brownouts and blackouts.

Not the only things buried in Spring Valley!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of Burke. We still lose power a lot though.

I'm in Burke, too, but we rarely lose power. The big exception was after the derecho, but other than that, very few times in 12+ years.

[Anonymous]

We are in Mt Pleasant and our power lines are buried. We never lose power.

[Anonymous]

My mother lives in Rockville with buried power lines and loses power more than any person I know. Conversely, we live in Chevy Chase, DC and rarely lose power. AU Park, however, is pretty bad. I'm not sure that underground power lines necessarily equal no power outages.

[Anonymous]

Logan circle dc. We've lost power once in 10 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am not so much worried about losing power (even though it is inconvenient.). I just think it looks kind of junky to have above ground power lines. My German neighbor commented that our Bethesda neighborhood "reminded her of Mexico City" when she moved here because of the above ground power lines.

To be fair, much of urban Germany underwent quite an, ahem, urban renewal phase in the 1940s and kind of got to start over from scratch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh good lord. I'm the first PP and I wasn't being pro-Capitol Hill or anti-Capitol Hill. I don't think we need to beat that dead horse any more. Just making the point that a neighborhood does not have to be new construction to have underground power lines.

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