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How to optimize your vegetation management program

Learn how utility companies can optimize their vegetation management program to help prevent blackouts and wildfires.

Vegetation management is the biggest single operational expense for most utility companies. And yet in 2020, over 10 million acres burned as the result of roughly 60,000 wildfires in the United States, many caused by downed trees or overgrown vegetation around power lines.

And as extreme weather continues to plague the country, utility companies will run the risk of lost life, property, and revenue, for the foreseeable future.

Learn how Fulcrum can help utility companies optimize their vegetation management programs.

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