....after they forced the Utilities to prioritize their BS enviro-agenda and neglect clearing the underbrush and deadwood.
You’re correct on both points.
The propagation of stupidity and lies within a utility company is tremendous.
Promotions are being given to undeserving women and minorities.
Every single timeline stated is not even remotely accomplishable.
The cost overruns will also be huge.
The amount of overlapping designs, and thus costs, between electric and fiber is huge.
Imagine one electric utility, and three comm companies wanting work done in the same area.
The electric company can have different work being designed for New Business, Regional Engineering, and DER calling for replacement of the same poles of three differing sizes and times.
Then the outside engineering firms are calling for the same poles to be designed and replaced for new comm attachments.
Now you also have the IBEW and CWA unions having discussions about not taking each other’s work.
Timelines and costs…
These are only some of the issues before getting into environmental and governmental…