If Con Ed customers want better protection against the next hurricane, they’d better be ready to pay.
Burying all 35,000 miles of overhead wires in New York City and Westchester — which tend to get knocked out during storms — would cost $60 billion, Con Ed officials told The Post.
That’s about 40 times more than the cost of the new Yankee Stadium or 15 times the estimated cost of the new Tappan Zee Bridge.
It would come to about $26,700 per customer — not counting interest on the loans the company would need to finance the project.
And utility officials believe that might be enough to bury only cables in coastal and wooded areas.