Having seen the destruction from hurricanes and tornadoes, and experienced the delays in power restoration.

Alabama Power trims trees to provide reliable service to our customers. Planned maintenance is prioritized by evaluating reliability data, field conditions and other specific information. There are instances when a tree must be trimmed or removed outside of planned maintenance.

Mar 21, “Trees and limbs are one of the major causes of power outages” said Corey Sweeney, Contract Services manager for Alabama Power. “The state of Alabama is the third-most forested state in the lower Managing the vegetation on our right-of-way corridors is an effective practice to help improve our reliability.” It’s a massive shrubpruning.bar: Gilbert Nicholson. Jun 30, Not only does Alabama Power have the right to cut danger trees and collateral trees, but it is obligated under the law to do so.

Alabama Power is responsible for clearing the right of way for 73, miles of distribution power lines.

Alabama Power was entitled to cut trees in order to comply with the law;the plaintiffs presented no evidence indicating that the defendants cut trees unnecessarily or inappropriately. They'll gladly randomly show up and cut down trees that are within 15 feet of a power line, even if that tree has been there for 25 years.

And then try and leave the stump without removing it. Not sure if they do this on call, but as mentioned already, beware. level 2. Jul 24, Trees and limbs fall onto power lines, leaving people in the dark. “The more you allow trees and bushes, and other things, to grow up underneath and present a problem, the more likely you are to have a lot of outages” said Ike Pigott with Alabama shrubpruning.bar: Michael Oder.

Jul 09, I came unglued."MORATORIUM REQUESTMcCoy wanted the city to issue a moratorium on tree shrubpruning.bar, city officials said tree trimming regulations for Alabama Power are.

The trees are NOT on an easement.

However, the law allows an electric company to trim or remove a tree, under certain circumstances, without notifying the property owner. It is not clear how these provisions relate to CGS §which subjects anyone who cuts trees standing on another person ' s land without the owner ' Missing: alabama. Dec 12, Consumers Energy: If a tree falls on power lines after a storm, Consumers Energy states “In the aftermath of a storm, our crews will work 24/7 to trim or remove any tree that is interfering with power restoration.

After power has been restored and it is safe, it is the property owner’s responsibility to clean up trees or debris left on their property following emergency tree trimming or removal.”Missing: alabama.