CNUC News

Announcements

Tree Line USA Award Given to Avista

In April, the Arbor Day Foundation awarded CN Utility Consulting client Avista Corporation with a Tree Line USA award in recognition of their efforts to provide reliable electric service while preserving a healthy tree canopy across utility service areas.

Article

Regulating Utility Vegetation Management Activities

By Stephen R. Cieslewicz, CN Utility Consulting This opinion editorial was published in the May/June 2012 issue of Utility Arborist Newsline. I begin this article knowing full well it may bring to the surface some interesting, albeit potentially controversial issues. My hope is that these issues are discussed extensively among the many members of the […]

Innovation

The Future of Transmission Vegetation Management

A Review of the FERC and NERC 2011 Northeast U.S. Snowstorm Report By William Porter, Director of Consulting, CN Utility Consulting In October 2011, a storm packing up to 32 inches of snow damaged trees, disabled 74 transmission lines and nearly 50,000 distribution facilities, and left more than 3 million customers without energy for as […]

Announcements

Consulting Division Expands at CNUC

CN Utility Consulting, Inc. (CNUC), a leader in utility vegetation management consulting and operations, recently promoted Will Porter to director of consulting services and Seth Reid to associate technical consultant.

Announcements

Grogan Receives WTI Wildlife Protector Certification

SEBASTOPOL, Calif. — Kevin Grogan, lead consulting utility forester working on the CN Utility Consulting (CNUC) contract with NV Energy in Reno, Nev., recently completed the Certified WildlifeProtector program offered by the Wildlife Training Institute (WTI).