Originally Posted by
Bill Robertson
There are lots of problems trying to fix the problem. The conduit between light poles probably isn’t big enough to fit aluminum wire because aluminum has to be larger for the same load. Changing out thousands of miles of conduit would cost a large fortune. The lights could be changed to LED which uses much less power so then the current conduit would work. But thousands of LED street lights would again be a large fortune. Also, the market for scrap aluminum isn’t bad so aluminum wire would probably get stolen too.
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