• Tree-Caused Electric Outages

    In 1995, Eastern Utilities was among 14 utilities in the United States and Canada participating in a study to collect and evaluate data about the phenomena of how trees cause outages. Read more...

    Essential reading for anyone interested in tree-caused outages. Perhaps the first paper to quantify the percent of trees that caused outages that could have been categorized as hazard trees (44%):

    In 1995, Eastern Utilities was among 14 utilities in the United States and Canada participating in a study to collect and evaluate data about the phenomena of how trees cause outages...

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    Peter Simpson and Rufin Van Bossuyt

    Journal of Arboriculture

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