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Join speaker Dan Nuñez at PRF in Houston for his informational session, “Outage Proof” about how utilities and regulators can assess individual investments in the context of affordability, ensuring they align with system risk, balance other priorities, and account for lifecycle costs. Is there a common framework we can develop to quantify the benefits of resilience projects—such as avoided outages, faster restoration, and reduced customer harm—and how can planning tools help target high-risk areas and guide strategic grid hardening decisions?
Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM) has evolved from a primarily clearance-focused maintenance practice into a science-based approach that supports system reliability, safety, and environmental stewardship.
Join Anne Beard of Filsinger Energy Partners as she explores the evolution of IVM in the electric utility industry. Drawing on more than 50 years of utility vegetation management research, Rights-of-Way Symposium proceedings, and industry experience, this webinar will examine key lessons from decades of research, the influence of regulatory and technological advancements, and the growing role of data-driven decision-making in modern vegetation management programs.
Participants will gain insight into the historical foundations of IVM, emerging technologies such as LiDAR and remote sensing, and the enduring principles that continue to guide effective vegetation management today.
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This webinar is intended for utility vegetation management professionals, arborists, foresters, environmental specialists, asset managers, operations personnel, regulatory and compliance staff, utility planners, consultants, researchers, and others interested in the history, evolution, and future direction of integrated vegetation management in the electric utility industry.
Tree Mortality, Model Uncertainty and the Emerging Wildfire Risk Challenge for Utilities
We’re proud to highlight a recent publication by one of our very own, Harry Posdchwit, featured in the Alltricity Network Electric Industry publication. In the article, “Tree Mortality, Model Uncertainty and the Emerging Wildfire Risk Challenge for Utilities,” Harry examines how increasing tree mortality is becoming a significant risk factor for electric utilities, impacting both grid reliability and wildfire ignition potential.
California Governor Gavin Newsom highlights his state’s partnership with Filsinger Energy Partners.
“Filsinger Energy Partners are experts in transformational thinking, and they have guided us down a path over the course of the last six or so months to lay out in prescriptive detail what that 21st century utility looks like.”
While maps of wildfire behavior and consequence remain essential tools, they provide an incomplete view of the total risk landscape facing utilities. Increasing regulatory and stakeholder focus on broader system vulnerabilities has highlighted hazards that are not well captured by traditional wildfire analyses. Even mature utility risk programs now face challenges quantifying and planning for these less-understood dimensions of risk.
In this webinar, FEP’s Harry Podschwit explores how rigorous statistical methods can be used to quantify these emerging risks and integrate them into practical decision-making frameworks. The discussion centers on two often under-examined but critical components of utility risk: tree mortality and egress failure.