In many areas, wildlife intruding into power equipment has become the leading cause of outages – even more common than storms or vegetation. The combined costs of restoring just one of these outages starts in the tens of thousands of dollars, and can easily run up into the millions due to equipment damage, service reliability penalties, reputation management, and more.
In a recent article in Electric Energy magazine, TransGard CEO Greg Freeman addresses these challenges – and how TransGard is using technology to combat them.