VEGETATION MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
Stop outages and fires in one spend.
Overgrown trees, brush, and dry grasses spark and spread fires that cause billions in annual damages. With Technosylvas’s AI-powered forecasting, your vegetation management budget can address outage threats while also planning for fire risks. Resources go where they matter most, reducing outages today and building resilience against rare but catastrophic events.
Move from reactive to proactive.
Vegetation impacts are the #1 cause of power outages, leaving electric utilities vulnerable to both wildfire ignition and long-term service disruption. Unlike traditional vegetation management that relies on scheduled maintenance cycles, Technosylva models adapt to changing conditions by capturing the dynamic interplay between weather and vegetation on an hour-by-hour basis.
Tools to act and insights to plan:
- AI analysis of weather, real-time fuel conditions, and utility assets at risk
- Enhanced fuel types and live fuel moisture content modeling validated against fire spread behavior
- LIDAR and machine learning to align efforts with risk profiles
- Integration with over 1 billion daily wildfire simulations
- Proven technology used by utilities and fire agencies to manage over 20,000 fire incidents a year
- Advanced integrations with existing vegetation data providers, like AIDash, bridge internal siloes
- Continuous monitoring supports vegetation planning, emergency response, and after-action evaluation.
Real-Time Data
Know now with AI.
Vegetation conditions change constantly due to weather and climate patterns. Our science-driven, AI-powered analytics integrate with your broader wildfire risk planning and response to deliver real-time asset-risk data on vegetation density, fuel load and moisture, drought stress, and growth patterns.
Predictive Encroachment Analysis
Know precisely how and when specific types of vegetation will enter minimum clearance and defensible space thresholds using satellite imagery, growth models, historical growth rates, and climate data.
Prioritized Maintenance Scheduling
Improve efficiency by optimizing scheduling, resource allocation, and risk prioritization. Move beyond fixed cycles to focus on areas where intervention has the greatest impact, including low-probability but high-consequence risks.
Regulatory Compliance Reporting
AAddress increasing regulatory pressures like CPUC, FERC, and state requirements to demonstrate vegetation management actions taken beyond the “routine.” Demonstrate what was done and why with cost-benefit data regulators can trust.
Cost Optimization Analytics
Protect limited budgets by moving from blanket maintenance to targeted, risk-driven actions. Direct spending to the areas of highest consequence and make the cost-benefit clear to regulators.
Critical Decision Support
Access real-time data and risk modeling to guide Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) and Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings (EPSS) decisions driven by vegetation conditions. Balance immediate safety with long-term service reliability.
Critical technology for fire prevention and grid reliability
Electric Utilities
Analyze Technosylva models to plan, monitor
and execute all vegetation-related activities
around their assets
Fire Agencies
Rely on Technosylva to map fuel types, identify hazardous vegetation buildup, and design prescribed burns.
I worked in wildfire risk assessment and mitigation for several years in California, becoming a seasoned partner with Technosylva at multiple California utilities. When I arrived at Xcel Energy, and I was tasked with continuing to build wildfire mitigation programs across a multi-state jurisdiction, I was pleased that Xcel had partnered with Technosylva to build its initial toolset, and expanding these capabilities across the expanded service territory was the natural choice to deliver quality analysis and modeling in an accelerated time frame.
In the face of more frequent extreme weather events, these tools equip us with the situational awareness to make informed decisions in both our grid operations and our system hardening investments to mitigate against ignitions associated with our electrical facilities in the least disruptive manner for our customers.
Paul McGregor
Vice President, Wildfire Risk Management, Xcel Energy
“Technosylva has been a tremendous partner for PG&E to enable unparalleled capabilities in understanding and predicting potential catastrophic wildfire risk associated with our electric system.”
Sumeet Singh
Executive Vice President, PG&E
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