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Avista outlines wildfire-resiliency program, AI cameras and public-safety power-shutoff procedures
Summary
Avista presented a 10-year wildfire resiliency plan to the committee, describing grid-hardening, enhanced vegetation management, situational-awareness tools including AI-mounted cameras and weather stations, and operations protocols including staged fire-safety modes and the public-safety power shutoff (PSPS) as a last resort.
Avista regional business manager Ryan Arnold and senior wildfire resiliency program manager Robin Brookshire told the PIES Committee the utility is implementing a 10-year wildfire resiliency plan that includes four components: grid hardening; enhanced vegetation management; situational awareness through weather stations and AI fire-detection cameras; and operations and emergency response.
Arnold said the company has installed 15 mountaintop AI cameras with fire-detection capability and plans to add about five more cameras in Washington. "It gives us visual confirmation... it allows us to…
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