AI-powered vegetation management: Advancing utility risk management
Machine learning transforms vegetation management into a utility risk tool—cutting wildfire threats and improving grid resilience.
Tag: vegetation management
Satellites and Vegetation Management: Lessons from Multiple Grid-Wide Rollouts
The importance of utility vegetation management is growing as weather events become more severe; satellites can help. More utilities are adding satellite analytics to their
Using Satellite Imagery to Identify 37 Different Species of Vegetation and Reduce Risk
A case study by Red Eléctrica de España, Elewit and Overstory. Which tree, of the millions that are located near power lines, could be the
Leveraging Predictive Data Science to Optimize Vegetation Management
Managing vegetation and tree growth around power lines is an important responsibility that rests on the shoulders (and budgets) of utilities. It plays a critical
Know Your Trees – Storm Management
Getting better at storm-related outage prediction Utilities need to know the “ground truth” One of the utility’s primary missions is to minimize outage frequency and
Wisely Managing Vegetation at the Distribution Level
Ever since the 2003 blackout, vegetation management has improved, largely due to FERC regulation. Still, improvement has been mostly in transmission. The “last mile” of