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Wildlife mitigation

How to Classify Wildlife Mitigation as a Capital Improvement

How to Classify Wildlife Mitigation as a Capital Improvement

Substation component covers tend to fall under a utility’s limited operations and maintenance...

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Eliminate Outage Risks at Deadends

Eliminate Outage Risks at Deadends

Preventing wildlife contact is a priority for utilities, since up to 20% of power outages are...

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Reflections on Industry Helping Endangered Species on Wildlife Day

Reflections on Industry Helping Endangered Species on Wildlife Day

In December 2013, the United Nations General Assembly designated March 3 as UN World Wildlife Day....

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Osprey Pose Unique Springtime Challenges for Electric Utilities

Osprey Pose Unique Springtime Challenges for Electric Utilities

If you have ever driven along a river, the ocean, or a large lake and come across a massive,...

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Under the Covers: Investigating Animal Mitigation Covers and Infrared Thermography

Under the Covers: Investigating Animal Mitigation Covers and Infrared Thermography

Hubbell | Greenjacket Inc. is pleased to announce that it has received permission to distribute a...

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Tools in the Toolbox to Minimize Bird-Caused Outages

Tools in the Toolbox to Minimize Bird-Caused Outages

Birds have no doubt been interacting with power lines and substations since the latter first...

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Greenjacket Creates Custom Wildlife Mitigation Solution to Save Baby Owls

Greenjacket Creates Custom Wildlife Mitigation Solution to Save Baby Owls

Although we are just starting out the new year and snow is covering the ground in much of the USA...

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Asset Management Planning for Wildlife Outage Mitigation Planning

Asset Management Planning for Wildlife Outage Mitigation Planning

What should utilities do in a situation where they are having an animal-caused outage issue and do...

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The Cost of Outages. How Much Damage Can an Animal Cause?

The Cost of Outages. How Much Damage Can an Animal Cause?

Animal-caused electric outages, like all other outages, can cause direct and consequential damage...

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The Impact of Animal-Caused Outages

The Impact of Animal-Caused Outages

The growing reliance on energy and the implications of its interruption in residential homes,...

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Protecting America’s Birds with Greenjacket

Protecting America’s Birds with Greenjacket

The Lemon Creek substation is a key site for AEL&P in supplying backup power and electrical...

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5 Ways Animals Cause Fires and How Wildlife Covers Can Help

5 Ways Animals Cause Fires and How Wildlife Covers Can Help

Looking at recent data from California utilities, about one in ten ignition causes can be traced...

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