E Source Adds Live Scenario Planning to GridInform® Vegetation Intelligence Software

Utilities can easily model multi-year vegetation investment strategies and quantify reliability, risk, and cost tradeoffs on demand before committing resources.

Key Points

• Evaluate vegetation management strategies and understand how operational and investment decisions influence future reliability performance.
• Replace static analysis with modeled, multi-year vegetation plans created on demand.
• Deliver data-backed vegetation investment plans that withstand regulatory and stakeholder scrutiny.

DALLAS, Sept. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- E Source today announced new advanced scenario planning capabilities in its GridInform® Vegetation Intelligence software, enabling electric utilities to model and compare multi-year vegetation management strategies and quantify their impact on reliability, risk, and cost before committing field resources and capital. For vegetation program managers and utility planners, this shifts vegetation management from reactive decision-making to forward-looking strategy evaluation, optimizing investment with data-backed plans that withstand stakeholder and regulatory scrutiny.

Scenario Planning for Long-Term Vegetation Management

Long-range vegetation strategy planning often relies on static analyses or periodic studies that can be time-consuming to produce and difficult to update as system conditions change.

With this new feature, utilities can run long-term vegetation planning scenarios directly within the Vegetation Intelligence software, enabling a more dynamic and data-driven approach. Instead of relying on point-in-time analyses or external studies, teams can evaluate strategies in real time and significantly reduce planning timelines from months to minutes.

It allows utilities to evaluate vegetation investment strategies over five to ten years by integrating infrastructure data, vegetation conditions, weather exposure, and outage history. Users can test program designs, compare cycle-based maintenance with targeted work, and assess how changes in funding and prioritization influence future reliability outcomes and cost trajectories.

Why This Matters to Utilities

Vegetation is a leading driver of outages and a primary source of reliability risk for utilities, yet long-term investment decisions are often made without the ability to test how different strategies will perform over time. Vegetation Intelligence uses integrated infrastructure, environmental, and outage data to identify where vegetation creates the greatest reliability risk and guide prioritization decisions. Scenario planning builds on this foundation by enabling utilities to evaluate potential outcomes before work is executed, shifting vegetation management from reactive decision-making to forward-looking strategy evaluation.

"What's changing is not just how vegetation decisions are made, but what utilities are expected to justify," said Jonah Keim, Vice President, Deliverability at E Source. "As investments face increasing scrutiny, approaches that can't link spend to reliability outcomes are becoming harder to defend. E Source's scenario planning capability allows utilities to demonstrate that linkage in advance."

Utilities using the scenario planning capability report clearer visibility into where vegetation risk is concentrated and greater confidence in how investment decisions affect reliability outcomes.

For more information, visit: https://www.esource.com/solutions/vegetation-intelligence.

About E Source

E Source combines industry-leading customer, grid, and technology solutions to help utilities make and implement better data-driven decisions that positively impact their customers, their bottom line, and the planet. Headquartered in Dallas, TX, E Source has teams across the US and Canada. Learn more at www.esource.com.

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