Tree trimmers branch out with new software

The country’s largest electricity distribution company is investing £24 million a year and rolling out new software to help cut back trees and prevent power cuts.
UK Power Networks will invest the sum over the next three years to make the electricity network more resilient so its eight million customers will have even fewer power cuts – thanks to a new data analysis system called ‘TRIM’.
The new Tree Risk Investment Model was invented by a member of staff and was tr