Risk based vegetation management

What does a risk based vegetation maintenance strategy look like that balance’s lifecycle costs, performance and risks on outages and ignitions?  The patrol intervals, level of vegetation clearing, and annual O/M spend that can be scaled to similar risk based maintenance strategies adopting IAM/ISO standards.

• Value proposition:  This is a utility universal problem statement as wildfire risks continue to grow risk becomes exacerbated with resource limitations of competing markets. This high demand will be at odds on who can compete in compensation with critical maintenance crews, leaving smaller utilities with high risk in a deficit placing public and environment in jeopardy.  A change in philosophy on having risk based vegetation will allow other utilities to adopt principles and the thinking to create capacity and cost savings.  Estimated cost savings for a utility on maintenance is 30-35% when transitioning from time based to risk based maintenance.