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Pacificorp pilots drones, infrared and satellite data; outlines enhanced safety settings and incident tracking
Summary
Pacificorp told regulators it is piloting drone and infrared inspections, testing satellite data for vegetation management, and is advancing an enhanced safety settings program that ranks circuits for mitigation; it also reported improvements to wildfire incident reporting and a materials failure process.
SISKIYOU/MODOC/SHASTA COUNTIES — Pacificorp told a July 2025 Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety workshop that it is expanding inspection technologies and data systems to support its 2026–2028 base wildfire mitigation plan. The utility said current inspection work relies on patrol, detailed and intrusive inspections and that it is layering drone and infrared detection where appropriate. "Our line patrolmen are licensed drone pilots and have that on them," said Michael Timbs, who described both vehicle‑based ground infrared for distribution and helicopter infrared for transmission.
Pacificorp said it is piloting satellite remote sensing and a vegetation‑management pilot in Oregon and Utah to assess how span‑level satellite chlorophyll detection and other remote data could be transferred to service areas in northern California. ‘‘We are currently in the data collection phase of the pilot…
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