Case Study: National Grid improves vegetation management and outage response with EagleView TreeRisk

Bringing Clarity, Cost Efficiency, and Confidence to Vegetation Management

National Grid required a more efficient method to monitor vegetation near its transmission lines across a vast 8,400-square-mile area in western New York. The utility’s field crews faced delays responding to outages as they had to patrol hundreds of difficult miles to locate problems, a process that was both time-consuming and costly. To address this, they turned to EagleView and its TreeRisk™ solution.

EagleView’s web-based TreeRisk platform provided National Grid with up-to-date aerial imagery and detailed datasets to pinpoint vegetation risks remotely. This allowed crews to be dispatched systematically to specific locations, drastically reducing unnecessary field time. The solution delivered a less than 1% false positive rate, enabled a significantly faster outage response, and transformed their operations from reactive to proactive.

National Grid

Ryan Blothenburg

Western Division Transmission Line Forester