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Geoff Kempter and Stephen Hilbert

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    June 1, 2023

    Incidental Line Clearance: What Arborists Need to Know About Working Around Electric Utilities

    By Geoff Kempter and Stephen Hilbert

    Electricity is the only product that is consumed the moment it is created, from the point of generation to end users, through a complex grid of towers, poles, wires and various types of hardware. The vast majority of the grid [...]

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