Please require PG&E to adopt insulated overhead power lines instead of underground lines, on the presumption that they can do that 3 or 4 times faster and that it costs less than one fifth as much and that it’s just about as effective at fire prevention when in service.  Supposedly SCE has already gotten a good measure of experience with such insulated lines and so far no fires have been started by them.
 If this is true, you owe it to us to be spared further astronomical power cost that’s already two and a half times the national average, partly because of the backlog of maintenance resulting from the PUC doing a poor job of forcing PG&E to keep up their system sufficiently for the times.
 We’re glad to see PG&E has effectively had the fear of God put into them, sufficient to have gotten quite serious about no longer starting fires at the worst possible times, when hot, dry air is blowing hard.  Our community is severely threatened by upwind wildland fire.
 Thank you!

Joseph Holmes
Kensington, California