Effectively piloting vegetation intelligence allows your team to understand how the solution can fit into your long-term goals and support proactive decision making when testing use cases to find out what delivers the biggest operational impact. This guide walks you through steps for designing a pilot that gives you clear results and communicates impact.

With the availability and integration of advanced tools like LiDAR, satellite imagery, and artificial intelligence, the utility tech has evolved to meet changing vegetation risks. Vegetation intelligence can significantly improve reliability, optimize resources, and mitigate risks from storms and wildfires by delivering actionable insights. This guide helps utilities navigate the evaluation process to choose the tools and partners to meet your objectives and build a more resilient grid.

As the year comes to an end and we look forward to 2025, there is one word that encapsulates where we’ve been and where we’re going at Overstory, and that is resilience. 

A landscape rich in remote-sensing technologies offers significant advantages for vegetation management. But choosing the right tool can be a complex challenge that demands understanding of specific use cases and which tool (or tools) can best support them. This guide can help.

The DISTRIBUTECH stage welcomed vegetation and data experts from four utilities who shared how they're harnessing Overstory’s vegetation intelligence to future-proof their operations programs. Despite a wide variety of geographies, resources, and challenges, experts from PG&E, SMUD, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative, and Powder River Energy Corporation agreed on four key principles that help them drive operational resilience.

Announcing a $14 million Series A, led by B Capital and welcoming The Nature Conservancy to our collective of climate-minded investors. Supercharging the growth and impact of our leading vegetation intelligence platform and team, as we continue to help utility partners more safely and reliably deliver power.

GIS Manager Bill “Doc” Docca shares how he built one of the cleanest GIS data sets the Overstory team has ever seen and how the team at Delaware Electric Cooperative (DEC) uses that data to optimize their programs.

We are thrilled to announce an additional $5.2M investment in Overstory today led by Convective Capital, a venture capital firm backing companies solving our wildfire crisis, and joined by other top-tier global investors. This new investment will allow us to continue expanding the Overstory product — a vegetation intelligence platform that helps utilities reduce the risk of power outages and wildfires caused by trees and plants touching their power lines.