After all the fires and outages and spiking prices I would think most people would be for burying the lines. Seems like a great idea for many reasons. 

It doesn't say if they will be burying transmission lines. I assume this is 99% distribution level lines which are significantly easier to construct. We bury 34.5 kV lines all the time in the renewable industry, pretty much every utility scale solar field and wind farm has many circuits of them running from the turbines or inverters to the project substation sometimes for fairly long distances.  I had assumed they would first identify the medium to high risk areas, then pull in new covered conductor, implement immense vegetation management resources, and complete inspections/improvements on all the structures and equipment first, maybe they have already done that. Either way it is a huge undertaking, and good to hear as the problem is not likely going away anytime soon. I am interested how it will be financed and how PG&E customers will bare the burden of this massive project. Many large western utilities will be watching...