Michael Lorusso knows from 28 years of experience with Southern California Edison how difficult maintenance outages can be for customers, especially during the summer...

“They’ll eat anything, they’re not picky,” said Brian Sprinkle, Southern California Edison’s Vegetation Management and Forestry manager, offering the simplest rationale for SCE’s goat grazing pilot program, which started last fall in Fresno County near SCE’s Big Creek Hydroelectric plant and Shaver Lake’s Balsam Forebay. ...

While planting trees can help mitigate climate change, trees also pose a risk of sparking a wildfire when they’re too close to electric power lines. As a result, utilities worldwide are spending increasing amounts of money on vegetation management ...