“…As for 500 kV overhead power lines, it was directly stated in [8] that ɷ ∑ =2.5 1/(year 100 km) cannot be regarded as a natural reflection of their peculiarities: the data covered only the first experience of operation of overhead power lines from Volga HPPs to Moscow, when the «dancing» of wires was the main cause of emergency outages of these lines. The parameters of the flow of unrecoverable failures in [2,3,5,6] are generally comparable, despite the fact that, say, the statistical sample [3] covered the time period from 2002-2007, and [5,6] -the period up to the mid-1980s of the last century. The reason lies in the fact that failures in the core networks are subjected to thorough investigations with subsequent development of organizational and technical measures to prevent them.…”