Transmission & Distribution – Inspection & Auditing

Pre-inspection takes a comprehensive look at the inventory of the property. Our team then takes that inventory and can prioritize the work based on a risk assessment. Creating an inventory of work provides the most control over workload, scheduling and forecasting budgets. An accurate inventory of trees can be extremely beneficial to utilities, municipalities, railroad companies and communities alike. Tree inventories can help programs focus on the following items: 

• Safety: An accurate tree inventory can help identify and mitigate potential failure risks before an event occurs.
• Data prioritization: Data at your fingertips allows you to prioritize trees with a higher risk rating. Knowing what is out there helps an organization plan and implement a maintenance program.
• Budgeting and forecasting: Maintaining a tree inventory allows an organization to budget necessary work and forecast future work. This can also assist in the RFP process so we have accurate information, ensuring success for both us and you.

Gathering this information is necessary for us to create a detailed and robust work plan, which will include details of the vegetation along your power lines, such as types of species, locations and growth to help you understand potential risks and aid in the prioritization of the workload and support financial decision-making.

Planning with our consulting foresters enhances the relationship and communication between the public and your organization regarding the established goals and objectives. Our foresters are ambassadors of your organization, providing expert answers to your customers’ questions, negotiating resolutions and addressing concerns. Proper management of the vegetation on your rights-of-way (ROW) is essential to avoiding electricity outages, wildfires, soil erosion and water quality issues. Mitigating risk and avoiding outages is vital to ensuring that your power infrastructure is maintained.

Eocene’s work planning services will help create efficiencies in time management and budget, and they will contribute to ensuring the reliability of your system and the safety of the inhabitants within it. Electronic work planning, or gathering geospatial and informational data of the workload, can provide a historical and current inventory of vegetation to improve your workflow.

Through our risk assessment program, we can identify, assess and prioritize vegetation that may pose an unacceptable level of risk to your assets. We work with you to develop mitigation solutions to reduce the risk to acceptable levels. Through our UVM Survey, we know that trees cause 22% of non-major event day outages and nearly half of all major event day outages across the United States’ distribution grid.

We follow up with post-work field audits to ensure the job has been completed according to the work plan and that if any adjustments were made, they are suitable for the needs of the project and property. Eocene is dedicated to using state-of-the-art technology, industry best management practices and a knowledgeable team who is ready to help.

Our team members are proud to serve on the front lines for utility customers and represent our clients and their interests. Planning with our consulting foresters enhances the relationship and communication between the public and your organization regarding the established goals and objectives. Our foresters are ambassadors of your organization, providing expert answers to your customers’ questions, negotiating resolutions and addressing concerns.

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