San Diego Convention Center

2025 Technical Conference Sessions

Tales from the South Pacific: How New Zealand’s Powerco navigated change in their vegetation management program amid a changing climate.

26 Mar 2025
Innovative and Emerging Technologies Knowledge Hub- Booth #4733, Exhibit Floor
Asset Management , Reliability and Resilience , Vegetation Management , Resiliency Knowledge Hub

This is a story of change management from the future. In this session, you’ll learn how Powerco, the largest utility in New Zealand, is on the front lines of climate change and had to adjust their vegetation management strategy to adapt and mitigate those climate impacts.
 
The challenges Powerco is facing today portend the future for all utilities. The world is getting warmer and wetter, new trees are growing in new places, and the longer growing seasons are leading to increased threats from vegetation. All of this significantly impacted SAIDI performance for Powerco.
 
Join us to gain actionable insights into how Powerco found the right technology for what they needed, but also how they navigated those changes internally and created a business case for their investment in the technology to meet the needs of a changing climate. 

Session sponsored by AiDASH

Speakers
Carl de Haan
Carl de Haan, Engineering Reliability Manager - Powerco
David Wolpa
David Wolpa, Cheif Revenue Officer - AiDash