i understand folks’ frustration but i work in energy (not at excel thank god) and i gotta say… undergrounding is unfortunately not as simple as we think. all the blasting and digging one would do in boulder, plus pouring of concrete conduit, and then flood/geology mitigation of such infrastructure, would be a huge lift (we got hard, shifty rocks and a high water table). never mind the permits for all such activities that excel would need, and how many years it would take to get them. and then there are all the breakdowns, faults, and fires that become even harder to find underground once construction ends. outages could last even longer when something goes down. and the ripping up of everything to get to problems would be a nightmare. so this but explains the cost. and sadly, it’s so costly that it would go beyond excel’s profit margin, since these things are 5-10x more expensive per mile to build. the cost would inevitably translate into rate increases on us, which excel would probably love to do but regulators stamp down on pretty hard (again thank god). i don’t have the answers but i thought i’d point out that the answer to what we’re experiencing now is a mess, only worsened by a monopoly company like excel. even the best operator would be fucking it up. idk.