VIDEO: NV Energy is bolstering its wildfire detection capabilities by installing 53 new cameras as part of its “Power Safe NV” Program.
Jesse Murray, senior vice president of energy delivery at NV Energy, highlighted the vast service territory, noting, “We want to be able to see fires as soon as they start. We have a service territory of over 45,000 square miles at NV Energy. The state of Nevada is over 110,000 squared miles. And so as we all know, there are parts of the state that there aren’t a lot of people at, not a lot eyeballs on.”
The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada has approved the installation, with 35 cameras in northern Nevada and 15 in southern Nevada.
When it comes to the placement of the cameras, Murray notes “we’re always looking for peaks of mountains or tops of buildings that allow us a 360-degree uninterrupted view with very long-range visibility.”
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