Environment & Land

Vegetation Management Solution

A Transmission Vegetation Management Program will help maintain the reliability of overhead transmission lines by minimizing vegetation-caused outages through mechanical or herbicide control activities. However, managing vegetation growth to regulatory clearances and complying with NERC guidelines is a complicated balance of managing budgets, prioritizing activities, and scheduling crews and contractors. Developing a good VMP is complicated by the need to understand the geographic and environmental characteristics of transmission assets and corridors, knowing who owns the adjacent land, identifying which contractors are required, and knowing which control activities to schedule – all are required to develop an appropriate plan and budget.


Cengea’s Vegetation Management Solution provides a centralized location to manage and access all your information needs including attributes, maps, and budgets. It integrates geographic data to provide details about ownership, geography, environment, and access to transmission corridors. It provides contract management, project planning and budgeting functions that are easily integrated with existing Asset Management and Financial applications.

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All these features combine to further support NERC Transmission Vegetation Management Program Standards such as:

  • Preventing outages from vegetation located on transmission rights-of-way (ROW)
  • Minimizing outages from vegetation adjacent to ROW
  • Maintaining clearances between transmission lines and vegetation on and along transmission ROW
  • Reporting of vegetation-related outages of the transmission systems to the respective regional reliability organizations (RROs) and NERC.

Cengea’s Vegetation Management Solution allows information to be easily updated from the desktop or a mobile application, shared appropriately across departments, and leveraged to not only create plans and budgets but also monitor activity progress and project effectiveness. It is composed of a number of modules that can be combined to best suit the business challenges at hand.

Key Business Problem
Our Vegetation Management Solution
  • Incomplete information about current assets, adjacent property ownership, environmental constraints, access points to ROW, or activity progress
  • A centralized repository containing all the information required for planning and budgeting is available to stakeholders including planners, crews, or contractors
  • Incomplete awareness of risks and inadequate mitigation
  • A comprehensive management system will provide much better visibility into vegetation-related risks and enable effective and timely mitigation actions
  • Inconsistent method for reporting
    on compliance and operational activities
  • A centralized database using standardized reports will simplify communications to stakeholders, staff, and compliance organizations
  • Specialized knowledge required to manage current systems
  • Intuitive easy to use interface means that the people with the information can easily share that information using intuitive forms and maps
  • Developing plans based on budgets rather than developing a plan that addresses the risks
  • Developing a plan based on what needs to be done can identify the risks before they are constrained by budget; then appropriate budgetary decisions can determine what tasks are affordable
  • Current information systems don’t integrate well with other business applications
  • Our system has been integrated with many other business systems from asset management to financials on a variety of platforms from Microsoft, Oracle, ESRI, and GE