Asplundh Tree Expert Co. Licenses ViryaNet's Electronic Vegetation Management Solution
Asplundh Tree Expert Co. has licensed ViryaNet's electronic Vegetation Management Solution (eVMS). In addition, Asplundh has signed a distribution agreement to bring eVMS to its customers in North America, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand....
Vegetation Management: Working With Contractors
In July 2002, Nashville Electric Service (NES) announced an accelerated vegetation management program designed to reduce the number of power outages that...
Targeting Reliability Improvements
Strategies and programs for improving the reliability of our transmission and distribution networks should be targeted for maximum benefit. Outage databases...
Electric Reliability and Outages
After safety, electric reliability is the most important responsibility for line clearance contractors and right-of-way vegetation managers....
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...
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...
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...
The Northeast Blackout and Where We Are Two Years Later
The overwhelming majority of tree-caused outages go unnoticed except by those who lose power. However, on rare occasions, a tree-caused outage turns into...
From the Desk of the President
From the desk of the president: The Utility Arborist Association (UAA) contacted Transmission & Distribution World to see if both organizations could collaborate on a special supplement on vegetation management. By covering this topic in greater detail in a special section, we thought we could give the topic justice. The editors of T&D World supported the idea wholeheartedly....
Helicopters and Lasers
A Middle Ground in Laser Technology Laser Technology Inc. is finding that lasers and vegetation management do mix especially...
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