Energy Dimensions

Arizona Public Service (APS) realizes multiple infrastructure management benefits from an aerial survey of its Right of Way (ROW), transmission lines and facilities. By Michael A. Neal, manager of Forestry and Special Programs at Arizona Public Service If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it is the tree really a hazard? [...]

The purpose of the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) Standard FAC-003 – Transmission Vegetation Management Program, is to improve the reliability of the electric transmission system. NERC believes this can be accomplished by preventing outages from vegetation located on transmission rights-of-way (ROW), maintaining clearances between transmission lines and vegetation, and reporting vegetation related outages [...]