(Salem, OR) -- The Oregon Department of Energy is sending eleven-and-a-half million dollars to utilities to help them reduce wildfire risk. Much of the money will be used for companies to move overhead power lines underground. Other projects include building a two-megawatt battery energy storage system on Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians land in Douglas County, and installing a transformer, automated switch gear and fiber-optic communication infrastructure in Lincoln County.