Case Study: Fortune 500 Utility transforms vegetation management with AiDASH

Fortune 500 utility transforms vegetation management for their entire T&D line with AiDash

A Fortune 500 utility company in the Western and Midwestern USA managed more than 60,000 line miles and a vegetation management budget of over $200 million, but lacked visibility and transparency with contractors. As a result, it struggled to bid accurately, keep crews properly equipped, and avoid missing critical areas, which drove up costs and reduced network reliability. AiDASH’s Intelligent Vegetation Management System (IVMS) was used to address these challenges.

AiDASH deployed satellite-based IVMS across the utility’s entire transmission and distribution network to improve planning, contractor oversight, and budgeting. The company identified over 30,000 line miles that did not need immediate trimming, extended trimming costs over 5.6 years instead of 4.6 years, improved contractor bid accuracy, prioritized the most critical areas, and reduced vegetation-related outages while increasing reliability for more than 3 million end customers.