One word of caution when in and around high voltage lines, towers, and
substations. Copper theft is a huge problem and has left many things
unsafe and ungrounded. You could become a path to ground for stray
voltage leakage, so just be careful.

I also have reservations with hives near substations, equipment does
fail, huge explosions occur with metal frag flying everywhere, and
huge oil fires occur with some equipment. This is not an uncommon
occurence due to aging and loaded equipment. If breaker or transformer
were to blow you and your hives could be killed or burned.

Again just thinking about safety first.

I would think hives under lines away from towers would be fine and I
myself will be placing hives under a 230kv line this year...

Btw I am transmission engineer for a top power company so I do see
these issues at times they are real occurences.

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