Vegetation Management Insights - Feb 28th, 2023
 
 
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Vegetation Management Insights

How Electric Utilities Run IVM and Wildfire Mitigation Programs
 
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Understanding why and how trees fail can help vegetation management managers to plan ahead.
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The study determined that a best practice agrivoltaic site ideally involves stakeholder collaboration, community education, policy incentives, site safety practices, and site-individualized crop selection and solar array design.
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The Utility Arborist Association is the premier organization for individuals and companies dedicated to providing professional utility arboricultural services. Members of the UAA and their employers have a commitment to maintaining trees and other vegetation to ensure the safe and reliable distribution of energy— electric, oil and gas—to businesse...
From trimming more than 6,500 miles of trees to performing equipment inspections and completing associated upgrades on more than 8,500 miles of circuits across its service territory, DTE has improved the customer experience.
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Critical infrastructure, such as power generating facilities, high voltage transmission lines, and utility substations present attractive targets for vandals and other malicious actors. Damage or disruption to these facilities can have wide-ranging consequences to customers, businesses, and society and cost utilities in repairs, fines, and other ex...
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Kass is focused on leveraging the company’s vegetation management expertise to expand into new markets such as residential and commercial tree services across a larger portion of the United States.
Obtaining a BVLOS waiver is a lengthy process that requires a complex analysis of internal operations and procedures to ensure total compliance with regulatory standards and requirements.
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Pedernales Electric Cooperative shares its strategies and tools for a multifaceted, adaptive vegetation management program.
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As electrification needs continue to evolve across residential, commercial, industrial and transportation sectors, many utilities are implementing undergrounding strategies aimed at protecting systems, increasing reliability and improving grid resiliency.