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CATALYST INSIGHTS

Condition-Based Vegetation Management 

Prioritize areas of highest risk to improve maintenance efficiency, reduce cost and avoid unnecessary outages
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The Need to Target Resources More Efficiently

Vegetation is the single largest cause of U.S. network outages. Unchecked encroachment damages assets, increases the risk of wildfires and leads to considerable service disruption.
Increasing Vegetation Management Cost
 The percentage of U.S. networks’ operating expenses going to UVM increased by more than 36% in the five years to 2020 and continues to rise.
Increasing Outages From Extreme Weather
In the period 2014 to 2023 the U.S. experienced almost double the weather-related outages compared to the 10 years between 2000 and 2009. Source.
Risk Exposure To 3rd Party Claims & Prosecution
Without a network-wide view of vegetation conditions, operators are missing opportunities to improve resilience and reliability, while also reducing risk and costs.
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Condition-based operations for enhanced performance and resilience

CATALYST INSIGHTS Vegetation Management is a satellite-based risk monitoring service that provides a condition-based alternative to calendar-based pruning.
By moving to condition-based operations, resources can be focussed on areas of highest risk, delivering efficiency and safety benefits.
INSIGHTS delivers actionable insights on grow-in and fall-in risk over the entire right of way and adjacent land to: 
Optimize operations
Audit post-work completion
Assess damage after disruptive events 
Having a current view of risk enables crews to focus on areas of most need, enabling the same resources to deliver greater improvements in risk and reliability.
Reliability & Resilience
Reduce Risk
Optimize Operations

Reliable. Configurable. Traceable. 

Up-to-date, network-wide insights on vegetation risk enable Utilities to achieve greater results with the same resources by targeting areas of their network at highest risk.
INSIGHTS works by combining intelligence extracted from high-resolution satellite imagery with Utilities’ asset, operational and environmental data. 
Processing identifies high-risk trees in 3D to calculate system risk and quantified tree-specific grow-in and fall-in threat. These risks are then prioritized and delivered for analysis in customer systems.
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Up-to-date, network-wide insights on vegetation risk enable Utilities to achieve greater results with the same resources by targeting areas of their network at highest risk

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Connect with CATALYST today to discover how CATALYST INSIGHTS Vegetation Management can identify your networks’ top ten risks.
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Breaking The Cycle With Condition-Based Vegetation Management
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