PG&E hosts 1st-ever Innovation Pitch Fest to solicit new technologies to bury power lines
ByLeslie Brinkley Wednesday, September 13, 2023 12:54AMSAN RAMON, Calif. (KGO) -- PG&E is shopping this week for new technology that could speed up the process of burying power lines underground. Their first-ever Innovation Pitch Fest in San Ramon even included a company that was featured on Shark Tank.There are 25,000 miles of above ground power lines in Northern California. PG&E wants to bury 10,000 miles of them in the next decade with the focus on fire threat areas. But it's a notoriously slow and expensive process so PG&E heard pitches Tuesday from nine companies with inventions that could speed it up.It's the utility's first Innovation Pitch Fest on the heels of a summer innovation summit. Six-hundred contenders were whittled down to this week's 54 finalists.MORE: PG&am...