The upcoming workshop on End-of-Life Strategies: Replacement of Aging Overhead Transmission Lines Assets has been scheduled for April 3rd at 1-2:30pm ET. As transmission infrastructure ages, utilities must navigate the complex challenge of replacing overhead transmission line assets in a cost-effective, strategic, and data-driven manner. Understanding how the industry approaches this challenge is key to optimizing investment decisions and ensuring long-term grid reliability.This workshop aims to facilitate industry benchmarking by bringing together the Overhead Transmission Equipment and Asset Management in T&D groups to share their replacement strategies, methodologies, and decision-making frameworks. Participants will engage in discussions that provide valuable data for strategic planning and asset management.Key topics of discussion will include:Industry Benchmarking: Comparing strategies, timelines, and methodologies across utilitiesData-Driven Decision Making: Leveraging condition assessments, failure rates, and predictive analyticsRisk-Based vs. Age-Based Replacement: Evaluating different asset replacement modelsLessons Learned: Real-world case studies from utilities with established replacement strategiesPresenters: Chelsey Knibbs, SaskPower, Dmitriy Misyura, PSEG, Justin Nettesheim, ATC

Please mark your calendars for our upcoming webinar scheduled April 17th at 11:00am ET on Transmission Line Condition Assessment and Health Model at New Brunswick Power.Shortly after the Asset Management group was formed at NB Power, they were challenged in getting a high level of confidence that we were investing enough capital dollars into their transmission line network. Failures were becoming more frequent and reliability was starting to decrease. In 2013, they partnered with Kinectrics Inc to perform an asset condition assessment on their overhead transmission lines. The results confirmed they were not investing enough capital dollars to be sustainable long term and that a large amount of our infrastructure was nearing the end of its expected life. After realizing how important this level of information was in quantifying the current level of risk, it was decided to develop a model in-house as a way of having updated health and condition scores as the assets aged, when corrective maintenance issues were identified and as capital projects were completed.This presentation will describe how New Brunswick Power evolved its transmission line condition assessment from a one-time snapshot into a near real-time indicator of health and condition for all transmission line segments and individual structures including the methodology, data collection, the software used to build the model and display the results plus the benefits achieved. Presenter(s): Brad Pegg and Tom Keating, New Brunswick Power and Berend van Middendorp, Stantec

Please mark your calendars for our upcoming thematic discussion between Asset Management in T&D and Asset Management in Generation on April 23rd at 1:00 pm ET. The topic of this discussion will be Utility Perspectives on Integrated Generation, Transmission & Distribution Asset Management.This session will focus on firsthand insights from utilities that have integrated the Asset Management organization and adopted integrated approaches to asset management across their Generation, Transmission, and Distribution (G, T&D) portfolios. Participants will gain insights into how utilities have carried out the organizational changes and are aligning asset management strategies across the entire power system, the challenges they face, and the opportunities they see for optimizing asset performance and reliability.Discussion Focus Areas:Opportunities for Optimization: Key gains achieved from integration of asset management in terms of asset performance, efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness across the utility. I always to the positives first.Challenges in Cross-Sector Asset Management: Key barriers utilities face in integrating separate work groups and aligning strategies, processes, systems, data, and decision-making across different asset classes.Best Practices & Lessons Learned: Practical examples of what has worked (and what hasn’t) in developing an integrated asset management approach.Future of Integrated Asset Management: Emerging trends, technologies, and industry shifts that are shaping the way utilities approach asset management across G, T&D.

Register now for Day 1 of the Asset Management in T&D May 2025 Virtual General Meeting! Join us Tuesday, May 6, 2025, from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM ET for a technical presentation and roundtable discussion (Topic TBD).Meeting Details:Topic: TBDDate: May 6, 2025Time: 10:30 AM - 1:30 PM ETLocation: Virtual (please register through this portal page)We look forward to seeing you there!Note: The date and time are subject to change based on presenter availability. Participants will be notified of any updates.