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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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    A 360-Degree Approach to Wildfires in Canada

    April 16, 2024
    FortisAlberta combines conventional and innovative approaches to manage wildfire risk in a diverse operating environment.
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    Collaboration and Community to Lower Wildfire Risk for Utilities

    April 15, 2024
    Idaho Power leverages public-private partnerships to reduce wildfire risk in southern Idaho.
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    California Commission Strengthens Enforcement Efforts with New Citation Program for Power Shutoffs

    Oct. 2, 2023
    This new citation program establishes a tool that CPUC staff may use when appropriate to swiftly cite utilities for lack of compliance with PSPS guidelines.
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    SCE Partners for AI Technology for Wildfire Mitigation

    Oct. 2, 2023
    The enterprise-grade, 3D network modeling technology uses AI/ML to aggregate utilities' broad spectrum of data sources into one hyper-realistic digital simulation environment....

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    Wildfire Risk Mitigation

    Feb. 16, 2022
    Learn about the tools and practices that minimize power equipment caused fires.
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    Photo by Marmon Utility.
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    Vegetation Management

    Wildfire Risk is Business Risk: A Vegetation Management Program with AI at its Core - Part Two

    April 9, 2024
    Utilities must prepare to operate in an environment where climate change poses an inherent risk to their vegetation management strategy.
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    Wildfire Risk Is Business Risk: How Utilities Can Mitigate It - Part One

    March 12, 2024
    History has taught hard lessons about how powerline infrastructure can spark or contribute to a blaze, and the responsibility for wildfire prevention and protection rests with...
    Texas A&M Forest Service
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    Xcel Says Its Equipment Likely Helped Start Texas Fire

    March 8, 2024
    The company is working with investigators and running its own review of the Smokehouse Creek blaze’s origins.
    Texas A&M Forest Service
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    Xcel Told of Potential Exposure to Texas Wildfire Damages

    Feb. 29, 2024
    A law firm has asked the parent of Southwestern Public Service Co. to preserve a fallen pole.