With so many storm outages, why don’t we put more power lines underground in Massachusetts?

In the wake of the recent blizzard that caused many to lose power, Christopher Knittel, MIT associate dean for climate and sustainability, discusses the benefits and risks of moving powerlines underground. Rather than moving everything underground, Knittel states that we need “a more targeted approach, which is identify the most critical lines in the network and do the cost-benefit test on undergrounding those.”