Summer Campaign

Anna Ellis

HELICOPTERS, drones, R&D and fieldwork are combined to protect the natural environment that coexists with power lines in the so­called Summer Campaign, in which Endesa is set to invest €58.3 million in 2023.

Jose Manuel Revuelta, Endesa’s General Director of Networks, confirmed: “We work throughout the year to reach the summer season with our homework done.

“The summer plan is leveraged on three axes: felling and pruning around power lines, line inspections to get the most out of preventive maintenance and actions on the network to ensure continuity of electricity supply and minimise the risk of incidents.”

The cleaning and care of the forest mass that grows around the electrical network, the use of helicopters to carry out thermography and HD videos and visual inspections and exhaustive reviews of all the company’s facilities are carried out continuously and periodically throughout the territory in which Endesa manages.

Endesa’s distribution network totals almost 318,000 kilometres of lines, which is the equivalent of going around the Earth eight times.