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    Utility best practices for mitigation and response to fire storms.

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    Line Life Podcast: ICYMI: Cutting Wildfire Risk

    June 28, 2024
    In this audio story, Southern California Edison shares its multi-layered approach to mitigating the wildfire challenge.
    Photo by Classic Connectors.
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    Integrate DLR and EEMS for a Future-Ready Grid

    May 30, 2024
    Will the implementation of dynamic line rating and engineered electrical mechanical shunt technologies aid in increasing transmission conductor capacity?
    Grid hardening with covered conductor, wildlife covers, fire resistant wrapped wood pole, etc. Photo by SCE
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    SCE Reduces Faults, Lowers Risk of Wildfire Ignitions

    May 2, 2024
    SCE's multi-layered approach effectively mitigates the wildfire challenge.
    Photo by EEI.
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    Rising to the Wildfire Challenge

    April 26, 2024
    Customer safety has to remain paramount for electric utilities, and a whole-system approach will be key to making power grids safer.
    Photo by Salt River Project.
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    Utility Investment In Forest Restoration

    April 18, 2024
    Salt River Project brings together nonprofit, private, federal, state and local partners to fund and implement landscape-scale forest thinning projects.

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    Wildfire Risk Mitigation

    Feb. 16, 2022
    Learn about the tools and practices that minimize power equipment caused fires.
    PGE has fully deployed and maintained 33 ultra-high-definition, mountaintop cameras, a number expected to grow to 35 by year's end.
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    Wildfire Mitigation Strategy: Aerial Covered Conductor

    May 13, 2024
    Wildfires have swept across the United States since the 1800s. Notably, the Miramichi fire in the State of Maine in 1825 scorched an astonishing 893,000 acres. Over the years,...
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    Enhancing Grid Resilience: Aerial Powerline Wildfire Mitigation Strategies

    May 13, 2024
    The electric utility industry has been afflicted by punishing wildfires for decades, and the problem has seemed to peak in recent years. The toll of destruction has included millions...
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    Aerial Covered Conductor as a Wildfire Mitigation Tool

    May 1, 2024
    This webinar will describe how wildfires are initiated, and the challenges powerlines face in wildfire prone areas. Discussed will be fire-related characteristics of bare wire...
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    Xcel Books $215M Charge to Begin Accounting for Texas Wildfire Damages

    April 26, 2024
    But the utility’s executives say they can’t yet estimate how large losses from the Smokehouse Creek Fire could grow.