Fulcrum and Overstory, working the same problem from both ends

Vegetation is the most common cause of power outages in the U.S., accounting for more than 20% of incidents, and vegetation management is the number one line item on most utilities’ annual budgets. Spending at that scale comes with a reasonable question attached: what did the year’s work change. Field organizations run good programs and document them carefully, and answering that question still means inferring a good deal.