Vegetation management hasn't kept up with technology - and that needs to change. In 2021, during a period of declining budget, vegetation-related power outages are on the rise, along with contracting and arborist costs, impacting customer reliability negatively. Listen to the podcast.
To add to their woes, extreme weather events like storms, hurricanes and wildfires have posed new challenges, pushing utilities to look for innovative technologies that can transform their O&M activities.
Remote monitoring and surveying of power lines from space are fast becoming the new normal, thanks to satellite and AI technologies. But do satellites generate as many actionable insights as drones and LiDAR technology? Can they help electric utilities save on vegetation management costs and improve their reliability indexes?
To make vegetation management more cost-efficient and data-driven, AiDash has published an educational guide for vegetation management professionals about the latest technologies, like satellite analytics and remote sensing, that can immediately help them reduce vegetation-related customer interruptions.
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