On my first day of work in utility vegetation management (UVM), a seven-year-old girl was fighting for her life in a critical burn unit 200 miles from home. A few days earlier, she had climbed into a ...

What’s great about the electric utility industry is just how many different careers it includes. Sure, power engineers are a big part of the picture; they're the ones who design, maintain, and help ...

Vegetation management (VM) is crucial for electric utilities to maintain public and personnel safety and ensure grid reliability. Typically, vegetation-related outages are the leading cause of outages ...

AI-driven UVM systems utilize big-data analytics, pattern recognition, and predictive modeling to identify and mitigate vegetation risks proactively. Advanced tools like satellite imagery, LiDAR, and ...

Consumers Energy is working to strengthen Michigan's electric grid by clearing tree and limbs from more than 8,000 miles of power lines this year. As the leading cause of outages, trees and branches ...

Westerville Electric Division reduced vegetation-related outages by 41% through proactive, data-driven vegetation management strategies. The utility integrated satellite imagery and AI analytics with ...

Duke Energy will begin aerial tree trimming in the Mitchell and Petersburg areas to address vegetation overgrowth along ...

The global utility vegetation management market is witnessing steady growth, driven by the need for power infrastructure resilience, growing frequency of weather-related outages, and regulatory ...

Connecticut’s utility regulatory agency has released a proposed report to the legislature about vegetation management and it includes what work the state’s major electric companies intend to perform ...

OWEGO, N.Y. (WBNG) -- Owego residents have grown frustrated with the frequent power outages that have occurred over the last two months. On several different occasions, businesses have had to close ...

GHRI 2025 actions to strengthen reliability and resiliency included installing 41,500+ more storm-resilient poles clearing ...