Tree Trimming

Maintaining clear and safe power lines is essential for reliable energy delivery, and our Tree Trimming program helps achieve this while protecting the natural beauty of our community.

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Safe and Healthy Tree Maintenance

When tree limbs grow too close to power lines they can cause damage or interrupt your service. They could also create a safety hazard to you, your neighbors, or children who like to climb trees.

  1. Do not allow children to climb or play in any tree located near a power line.
  2. Contact with the wires could result in severe injury or death.
  3. Especially during damp weather, electrical shock can occur when a person touches a tree that is touching a wire. It is not necessary to actually touch the wire itself to sustain a serious or even fatal electric shock.

Reliability

A primary cause of power outages is trees contacting power lines. Access Energy Cooperative makes every effort to provide you with safe and reliable electric service. To provide safe, uninterrupted service it is necessary to trim trees when they are located too close to power lines.

Each year we trim trees on approximately 20% of our system, so approximately once every five years we trim trees in your area.