alternatives to overhead power lines

[Mack Knife]

Originally Posted by matthew5580

I hope this forum is the proper place to be posting this thread. I believe that I have an electrical hypersensitivity and wanted to locate places [towns, cities, individual residences] in the continental United States that have underground power line systems. Additionally, locations with solar or other alternative power supplies [or places with no power] would be useful. Some places that I would especially like to check out based on where I am applying to school are: Ann Arbor, Michigan, New Haven, Connecticut, Cambridge, Mass., Palo Alto, CA, Pennsylvania, PA, Princeton, NJ, and Durham, NC [within 30 miles of these locations]. Thanks a lot everyone.

So, you will not travel outside of a very small area?

You say you believe you have electrical hypersensitivity. Is that something you know or just think you know? Making life changing decisions based on something you don't know isn't exactly good critical thinking.

[pvande55]

Originally Posted by SETI_listener

Reverse the NIMBY attitude and start installing more sub-stations. Sub-stations, one after the other, take huge trestle power lines and bring them to utility pole voltage (the latter mostly installed underground as mentioned). So, if you got the buzzy 100,000 V trestle in your back yard, ask the utility company to install a substation further up stream. I'm sure this issue is common as suburbs have encroached upon undeveloped land where the giant superstructures were out of sight.

More substations will not remove the need for the high voltage (which can be as high as 765 kv) "trestle lines". Many of them are for " through traffic". But some suburbs are sensitive about where they go. I remember one that had an ordinance that overhead lines could only go along main arterial roadways, so the power company built one with its transmission lines, "trestles" in the median.
Substations are expensive facilities, so it is unlikely a utility would build one just to shorten a "trestle" line by a few miles, even if a village offered to pay for it.