EDN North launches joint meetings with regional governors within the framework of the campaign to create clearings

Published on 03.06.2025

The management of EDN North held a meeting with the regional governor of Gabrovo, Maria Basheva, at which a decision was made to cooperate with the regional forestry regarding the marking of dangerous trees. This is the first in a series of meetings with the regional governors of Gabrovo, Veliko Tarnovo, Targovishte and Shumen, initiated in connection with a preventive campaign for the construction and maintenance of clearings along overhead power lines. Its goal is to ensure stable power supply during the autumn-winter season and to limit emergency outages of power lines due to fallen trees and broken branches.

For the successful implementation of the clearing works, EDN North relies on the support of local authorities and regional forestry enterprises. After the field inspections already carried out, vegetation outside the easement zones has been identified, as well as conflict zones along overhead power lines passing through forest areas. This poses a risk to the security of electricity supply to customers in the affected areas and creates a risk of fires when trees and branches come into contact with overhead lines. 

This year, the energy company is expanding the scope of its activities for pruning and cleaning vegetation along power lines, and for this purpose, the company has increased the planned costs for equipment and teams to over 10% of its investment program. One of the most modern clearing cleaning machines has been purchased. 

Sufficient human resources and specialized equipment have been provided to enable cuttings to be made on as many power lines as possible from the power distribution network.

Meetings with local authorities in the districts of Veliko Tarnovo, Targovishte and Shumen are forthcoming.