# Optimizing O&M Costs:

# Using Satellite Vegetation Intelligence to Deliver Member Savings

When Sho-Me Power Electric Cooperative’s Josh Holland was tasked with digitizing his team’s vegetation management workflow and managing an ambitious and expensive side-trimming project, he turned to satellites and artificial intelligence to maximize his side trimming and hot spot budgets across 1,800 transmission miles. He discovered a 13x return on investment, including savings on contractor bidding and seamless integrations into existing workflows.

In this session, we’ll cover how operations teams like Sho-Me’s can optimize today’s processes and budget for tomorrow’s increasing vegetation challenges.

**Get the recording of the webinar and you’ll learn…**

- How Sho-Me identified satellite intelligence and AI as the next best solution to deliver savings to their members

- How network-wide vegetation intelligence and prioritization has helped Sho-Me allocate their operations budget intelligently

- How the team at Sho-Me integrated satellite intelligence with their existing systems, tools (like lidar) and operations to make a big impact quickly

**Featuring…**

- **Josh Holland**, Construction Engineering and Operations, Director, at Sho-Me Power Electric Cooperative

- **Brian Lafayette**, Head of Business Strategy at Overstory

[Watch the webinar recording](https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/CKdj-NPY-b4si5LnfLUnf3xt6Y_wdj4E-nB1MMCOZnHfgl-UOldLiPrbCxdJl8BZm8NJsdHWw4kF99MM.rxXQjv5irm77HFr_?_x_zm_rhtaid=275&_x_zm_rtaid=l4tVrQpIRM6k6qPYv8oEZw.1669302237912.257c319239e6502559d0c74e23b7daff&continueMode=true)