Vegetation Management - June 2008
From the desk of the president
The best way to develop an effective vegetation management program is to have experienced, professional managers and utility arborists direct its operations....
The Right Tree In the Right Place
Arizona Public Service Recently Completed a Comprehensive Survey Of Trees on or Near Its Rights-of-way. In cooperation with the city of Phoenix, the utility...
After the Storms
Severe Storms In 2006 and 2007 Knocked Out Power to More Than 1.5 Million Utility Customers in the Ameren (St. Louis, Missouri) service territory. These...
PG&E Redesigns The Cost Equation
We are Taking a Very Good Program to a Completely Different Level. You can't get where we're going until you've been where we've been. That statement...
Eliminating Tree-Caused Outages
In an effort to eliminate less-predictable outages, PG&E has embarked on a five-year journey, with annual milestones, to reduce the vegetation-related...
Vegetation Management - June 2007
UAA Letter
From the desk of the president: Line-clearance specifications for electric utilities, in many cases, are not much different from those used 30, 40, even...
UAA Helps Utilities Meet NERC Standards
A panel of 23 experts from the Internation Society of Arboriculture (ISA) is crafting a best management practive (BMP) for integrated vegetation management...
Dead Trees Threaten BC Hydro Power Lines
Beetles destroyed millions of trees in British Columbia, and about 10 to 12 million dead trees are adjacent to high-voltage power lines. Beyond the threat...
Illinois Embraces Prairie Restoration
Early pioneers crossing the American frontier came upon a vast expanse of grassland called the great prarie. Today, the 22 million acres (8.9 million...
Identify Trees That Put Climbers at Risk
Electric utilities sell a potentially deadly product that is transmitted and distributed throughout the communities and urban forests in which we live,...
Vegetation Management November 2006
NERC's Transmission Vegetation Management Program Standard
The North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) has a new standard on transmission vegetation management programs (TVMPs), in effect as of April...
EEI and Federal Agencies Sign Landmark Agreement
Your vehicle's actual top speed is 130 Mph, but the legal speed limit is 70 Mph. This is the ultimate metaphor for progress in a civilized society. From...
Hydro One Demonstrates That Innovation Matters
Hydro one considers vegetation management to be a vital aspect of providing cost-effective reliable service to its customers. Tree removal, pruning, brush...
Vegetation Management - June 2006
Heavy Rains Fuel Wildfires
In the summer of 2005, Salt River Project faced a vegetation management challenge on its electric high-voltage transmission lines that it had never dealt with before — a challenge that put the utility well outside the definition of normal line clearance. For nearly a decade, Salt River Project (SRP; Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.) had maintained a successful management program keeping...
Qualified Contractors
One of the utility management enigmas puzzling me is that, on one hand, our industry is being pushed steadily and persistently to be more competitive,...
EEI MEMBER COMPANIES AND FEDERAL LAND AGENCIES SIGN VEGETATION MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT
AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS, THE ELECTRIC POWER SECTOR AND FEDERAL LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCIES finalized an agreement on May 25, 2006, to facilitate...
Products and Services
Manufacturers and service providers present their vegetation management products, services and software....
Vegetation Management - November 2005
BGE TRANSFORMS VEGETATION PROGRAM
FACTOR IN MORE THAN 2 MILLION TREES OF MANY SPECIES GROWN in a favorable climate with good soil conditions with 1.1 million electric customers served through 9400 line-mile overhead and 13,800 miles of underground distribution system, and you have the basis for a potential collision among reliability, trees and customers. Additionally, bulk power is transported...
INVESTIGATING TREE-CAUSED FAULTS
THE CHALLENGE TREES POSE TO THE RELIABILITY OF OVERHEAD DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS is well recognized, as vegetation is a dominant cause of service interruptions...
ELECTRIC RELIABILITY AND OUTAGES
AFTER SAFETY, ELECTRIC RELIABILITY IS THE MOST IMPORTANT RESPONSIBILITY for line clearance contractors and right-of-way vegetation managers. Responsible...
AIRBORNE SURVEYING AIDS IN VEGETATION MANAGEMENT
FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS, BRITISH COLUMBIA TRANSMISSION CORP. (BCTC) has used light detection and ranging (LIDAR) technology to do aerial surveys of the...
CLEANING UP AFTER KATRINA
OF COURSE, NOT ALL AREAS DAMAGED BY HURRICANE KATRINA REQUIRED THE SERVICES OF TREE-TRIMMING CREWS. In areas where the storm surge reduced homes to concrete...
PRODUCTS & Services
Portable Conductor Clearance Calculator Laser Technology Inc. (LTI) has just released a Pocket PC version of T&D Pro, a field software solution that allows...
Vegetation Management - June 2005
