AEP Vegetation Management Program

Phillips has assembled a skilled workforce capable of safely performing high-risk technical tree removals in close proximity to energized high-voltage transmission lines. We have established ourselves as AEP's preferred “heavy lift” vegetation contractor. Phillips' crews work in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma, and support AEP’s overall vegetation program system-wide. Project work sites include remote locations with difficult access and/or environmentally sensitive areas. We implement a heavy iron mechanical approach for ROW clearing, as opposed to a predominantly hand-labor-intensive approach that involves the use of excavators, mechanical harvesters (such as feller bunchers, jareffs, shin cutters, bucket trucks, dozers with winches, and Hydro Ax), and automated grinding equipment. Phillips routinely blends our mechanical approach and skilled hand labor to deliver best value services to AEP system-wide.