By doing this before the vegetation has a chance to cause power supply interruptions.

Tree Pruning

Pepco's qualified line clearance tree trimmers can provide clearance around primary and secondary lines so that a private contractor can safely trim or remove the rest of your tree. This process may take anywhere from days. Please contact us to get more information about this free service.

Tree Pruning Tree pruning is a critical part of our responsibility to deliver safe and reliable electric service.

This is known as directional method of line clearance.

We have developed an effective tree maintenance program to meet state and federal regulations for minimum clearances between trees and power lines. The work our licensed, professional foresters and contract tree-pruning experts.

Pepco vegetation management crews are specially trained, according to OSHA Regulations and ANSI Standards, in order to safely work on trees close to electrical conductors. Pepco also requires that line clearance specialists be trained in proper arboricultural pruning techniques, which follow the professional standards (ANSI Standard A, part 1), and the best management practices published by the.

Pepco and our contractors follow specific pruning standards. Request Service Call our Customer Care Hotline or complete our online form to request tree and vegetation services. Jun 22, After several terrible storms and repeated outages, Pepco began cutting down trees more aggressively than ever before. A group of Potomac homeowners thinks the utility has gone too far - Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.