I work for an electric utility. We’re always expanding, rebuilding, modernizing, replacing our physical plant, including substations. We don’t have any crumbling ones that I know of.
If there's nothing wrong with them, then why are you replacing them?
We had rolling 15-minute blackouts here in Texas in 2006 because the electrical infrastructure could not support the demand. An extra 400 kV substation here sure would have helped.
“We’re always expanding, rebuilding, modernizing, replacing our physical plant, including substations. We don’t have any crumbling ones that I know of.”
Sure we have infrastructure problems here but the problem isn’t really lack of money. Its lack of will, new bridges don’t get people reelected. Universal healthcare and other entitlement programs is what gets people elected so the money will be spent there.