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NEVADA ENERGY

Keeping 1.4M Customers Safe and Stable

NV Energy protects communities with advanced risk analysis and vegetation management planning.

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NV Energy needed to manage wildfire risk and protect public safety while also reducing outages for its customers across Nevada. Meeting this urgent challenge required a sophisticated approach to risk analysis that could integrate natural disaster threat propensity with infrastructure conditions.

  • Superior Risk Analysis: Integrated risk modeling, infrastructure maps, and databases give NV Energy a holistic view of wildfire threats.
  • Smarter Mitigation Prioritization: Refined investment strategies to allocate resources where they will deliver the greatest impact.
  • Vegetation Management Integration: Fuel mapping insights ensure vegetation treatments are effective and highlight areas that need accelerated attention.

Source: NV Energy 2024-2026 Joint Natural Disaster Protection Plan

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By identifying high-risk assets, supporting mitigation activities, and analyzing infrastructure-related risks for wildfires, NV Energy built resilience into their operations.

 

Our Solution

NV Energy deployed a suite of Technosylva solutions to advance wildfire risk analysis and provide utility teams with decision support for both immediate operations and long-range investment planning.

What We Delivered:

  • Wildfire Analyst Enterprise: Real-time fire spread predictions across NV Energy’s service territory.
  • Planning Model: Long-term planning tool for asset impact and consequence modeling.
  • Advanced Simulation: On-demand simulations that predict fire spread and infrastructure impacts in high-risk scenarios.

Client Impact

With Technosylva, NV Energy now has a wildfire risk platform that bridges day-to-day operations and long-term mitigation. Integrating fuel mapping into vegetation management allows them to validate treatments and identify areas that require accelerated treatment, ensuring that mitigation efforts are strategically applied to reduce risk

Timeline: Multi-year implementation with ongoing enhancements

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