Underground utilities are very expensive to build—and California has gone third world—which means they will be broke—forever.
That’s what most people forget.
They love cheap & reliable power, but hate overhead lines.
Underground utilities are about three times the cost of overhead. And CA is an earthquake hotbed. Imagine that headache with a 6.0+ hitting and cutting lines/duct-banks.
Not as expensive as millions of illegals who were given the nod to loot their social services, hospitals, medial care, courts, jails, jammed their schools, stolen jobs...CA is being looted and economically gang banged in every direction. But trenches for power lines are expensive!