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Two and a half years after a downed power line sparked the fire that killed 102 people and erased most of Lahaina, Hawaiian Electric is flying drones over every island it serves, as Maui News reported. The utility has contracted three separate inspection firms across Maui County, Molokai, the Big Island, and Oahu, all targeting…
Donecle raised €10M for inspection drones two weeks before WSJ reported America's aviation mechanic shortage. The two stories explain each other.
East Texas utility SWEPCO has a new way to find the branches that will kill your power before they actually do it. The drones are already flying. The Problem With Trees and Power Lines Vegetation management is the unglamorous backbone of electric utility reliability. Branches grow. Trees lean. Storms push limbs into conductors and the…
DJI Enterprise secures a landmark $250 million contract with State Grid Corporation of China. Discover how the Matrice 4T and Zenmuse L2 are moving drone power line inspections from experimental pilots to massive 24/7 autonomous operations.
EnBW, one of Germany’s largest energy companies, will reveal how it’s using autonomous dock-based drones for solar PV inspections in a free webinar this Thursday. The session, hosted jointly with drone autonomy platform FlytBase, runs January 29 at 3:00 PM CET (8:00 AM CT). EnBW tackles the solar inspection scaling problem Solar PV inspections look…
JLR has rolled out an ambitious drone trial at its Electric Propulsion Manufacturing Centre in Wolverhampton, where the Elios 3 from Flyability sliced a four hour inspection routine down to ten minutes, a time collapse so extreme it feels almost cartoonish until you realize it is simply the inevitable direction of factory automation, as Jaguar…
National Grid has launched a centralized, autonomous aerial inspection system for its electricity infrastructure across England and Wales.
In a groundbreaking move for the drone industry, Norway is advancing offshore oil platform inspections with a permanently installed DJI Dock drone system on the Edvard Grieg platform, operated by Aker BP ASA. Pilots in Stavanger, located 112 miles (180 kilometers) onshore, remotely control the drone to enhance safety and efficiency, marking a significant leap…
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