Clearing Up's Dan Catchpole and California Energy Markets' Jason Fordney talk about: 

• expediting utility undergrounding,
• Jason's response to opinion columns in the LA Times about whether or not rural California towns that were destroyed by wildfires should be rebuilt,
• Southwest Power Pool's draft service offering,
• and electric transportation news.

Read more about what’s happening in the power industry in the West at NewsData’s Clearing Up and California Energy Markets.

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