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Exelon - BGE: Hazard and Strategic Trees Optimization

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Exelon - BGE

Fortnightly Magazine - October 2024
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Exelon - BGE won the Fortnightly Top Innovator 2024 award ''Edith Clarke Top Innovator in Reliability of Electric Service'' for its Hazard and Strategic Trees Optimization.

 

PUF's Steve Mitnick: What is this innovation and its impact?

Chad Devine: We have a great innovation team and BGE's leadership continues to challenge its employees and teams to develop innovative ideas to improve the level of service and value we offer our customers. We were challenged in the vegetation management department with how to continue to improve electric service reliability.

One of the significant drivers of reliability is vegetation. Whenever we have storms, with our high density of vegetation and trees around the wires, we have tree damage that takes down poles and wires and interrupts service to our customers.

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