Company officials educate public through media about restoration process
Little Rock, Ark. – Entergy Arkansas,
Inc. is looking to the sky to help solve a very down-to-earth problem – keeping
the power on.
Entergy Arkansas contracts with
Aerial Solutions, Incorporated out of Tabor City, North Carolina to assist with
right-of-way vegetation management.
Aerial Solutions put on a
demonstration at an event today near Little Rock to educate the public through
the media about the challenges and innovative solutions associated with
right-of-way vegetation management.
“Keeping our rights-of-way clear of
vegetation, such as tree limbs, plays a crucial role in the reliability of the
service we provide, especially in a major storm,” said Brady Aldy, Entergy
Arkansas’s director of Distribution Operations
A typical Aerial Solutions Air Saw
crew can accomplish in a few hours what would take a ground based crew several
days to accomplish, with minimum exposure to energized power lines.
The 800-pound, 24-horsepower saw
consists of multiple 24-inch-diameter rotary blades and is suspended from a
90-foot vertical boom beneath the helicopter.
“This sophisticated equipment can
reach the top of any tree – even those in challenging, remote areas such as
swamps, hills, and mountains,” said Aldy. “By trimming tree branches now, we
better ensure our customers do not experience a vegetation-related outage during
good or bad weather.”
Entergy is the only utility in the
nation to win the top awards from the Edison Electric Institute for emergency
response or emergency assistance 11 years in a row.
Entergy Arkansas, Inc. provides
electricity to almost 684,000 customers in 63 counties. Entergy Corporation is
an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and
ret ail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plant s with
approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, and it is the
second-largest nuclear generator in the United States. Entergy delivers
electricity to 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi
and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of more than $13 billion and
approximately 14,500 employees.
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