Dr. Clarke describes storms bringing trees down onto overhead lines near his home in Cornwall, with repairs sometimes taking days. That experience helps explain his interest in household generation and battery storage. Another participant stresses the cost of burying cables, including installation, repairs and upgrades. Dense developments can make underground infrastructure easier to justify than long rural routes. The account combines local experience with general cost reasoning and does not establish how all of Cornwall's network is built.
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Rural electricity resilience and buried-line costs
Experience of storm outages in Cornwall leads into the cost tradeoff between overhead and underground power distribution.