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PLS Grid Integrity Executive Summary Overview PDF

Power Line Systems offers a solution called PLS-CADD to help utilities ensure grid reliability and reduce risks by effectively prioritizing vegetation management. PLS-CADD enables utilities to assess risks, rapidly identify vegetation encroachments that may fall into power lines, and prioritize the most critical violations. It has been the industry standard for 30 years and can help utilities evaluate structural integrity, identify poles for replacement, and analyze structures according to codes and standards while accounting for weather effects.

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PLS Grid Integrity Executive Summary Overview PDF

Power Line Systems offers a solution called PLS-CADD to help utilities ensure grid reliability and reduce risks by effectively prioritizing vegetation management. PLS-CADD enables utilities to assess risks, rapidly identify vegetation encroachments that may fall into power lines, and prioritize the most critical violations. It has been the industry standard for 30 years and can help utilities evaluate structural integrity, identify poles for replacement, and analyze structures according to codes and standards while accounting for weather effects.

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Ensure the Integrity of Your Electrical Grid and Infrastructure

Effectively Prioritize Your Vegetation Management to Reduce Risk

Map key: Vegetation grow in violation Vegetation fall in violation Vegetation trimming not required

As a Utility, Grid Reliability is Critical and Relies on: Power Line Systems offers a solution to Grid Reliability
• A strong structural engineering foundation Power Line Systems’ PLS-CADD is the industry’s
• Minimization of outages due to clearance viola- de-facto design software to help utilities ensure grid
tions (ground, vegetation and other obstacles) reliability in a practical, cost effective and efficient
• Mitigation of fire risk from overhead lines manner, with significant social and economic ROI.

BENEFITS OF POWER LINE SYSTEMS (PLS-CADD)


Risk Assessment and Mitigation Practicality, Cost Effectiveness and Efficiency
PLS-CADD enables a utility to enhance the risk With a proven technology solution and years of
assessment of its grid: experience, PLS-CADD can help utilities:
• Wires move with temperature, wind and ice, and • Rapidly identify and classify vegetation encroach-
PLS-CADD assesses weather in tandem with ments or trees that may fall into your lines
structural considerations • Avoid the huge expense of blindly clear cutting
• Field solutions that only measure static clearances your entire right-of-way of your entire grid
do not consider the effects of wire movements and • Prioritize encroachments to aggressively tackle
structure deflections under a variety of weather the most critical violations first
conditions
• Vegetation near structures may not need to be Tried and Tested Technology
cleared to the edge of the right-of-way, while
vegetation at midspan outside of the right-of-way Power Line Systems has a proven technology to
may pose potential risks ensure the integrity of a utility’s grid and infra-
structure.
Grid Reliability • Power Line Systems’ PLS-CADD technology has
been the industry standard for 30 years with
Many lines were constructed decades ago, frequent software updates
making their structural integrity a concern.
• In 2010, the North American Electric Reliability
PLS-CADD can help utilities:
Corporation (NERC) mandated that all lines 100kV+
• Effectively evaluate the structural integrity of your be reassessed, and PLS-CADD has been the
entire overhead line grid de-facto standard for this assessment with informa-
• Rapidly identify, classify and prioritize a pole tion from LiDAR surveys.
replacement program to ensure poles remain
standing after a storm For more discussion, see https://www.powline.com/technotes/
• Analyze structures based on NESC, GO95 and Wildfire_Risk_Assessment_Using_PLS-CADD.pdf
ASCE codes and standards, including the changes For more information: https://www.powerlinesystems.com
in wire tensions due to temperature, wind and ice
effects, as well as structure deflections Contact us at [email protected] or +1 (608) 238-2171

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