Case Study: Wild Rice Electric Cooperative improves reliability and reduces outages with Davey Resource Group's vegetation management plan

Wild Rice Electric Cooperative cuts storm outages to zero with Davey

Wild Rice Electric Cooperative, a member-owned utility in Minnesota, needed to reduce outages caused by vegetation encroachment on its distribution lines. They partnered with Davey Resource Group (DRG) to develop a data-driven, long-term vegetation management plan.

DRG created a solution using its proprietary ResourceKeeper system, combining aerial imagery, machine learning, and outage data to build an 8-year maintenance program. After implementing the first year's cycle, areas cleared using Davey's plan experienced zero outages following a major storm, improving reliability and aiding in record power restoration times.

Wild Rice Electric Cooperative