00:00New technology helping keep the lights on which is better for us safer,

00:05more effective gets the power back on more quickly.

00:07The high tech way, Envy energy is keeping an eye on power lines in remote areas helping

00:12pinpoint exactly where outages strike. Now. Why they see us

00:19eight news now at six.

00:22Well, en Energy energy is doing something new. They're installing sensors on some of their

00:26remote power lines and those sensors will immediately alert them if there's an outage.

00:31Some other kind of problem. Paul Johns was with one of the crews up on

00:34Mount Charleston this morning.

00:36You've no doubt heard the age old question when a tree falls in the forest and there's no one

00:39around to hear it. Does it make a sound? Right.

00:42Well, uh Envy energy will most certainly hear it whenever anything falls on their power lines,

00:47at least they'll know it because these typically low cost sensors you're about to see

00:51will immediately tell them where there's a problem.

00:54They can also communicate additional information about maintenance issues with the

00:57power flow. This morning, crews installed the sensors on

01:00lines dear melt Charleston lines that carry 34,000 volts of electricity and they can do it

01:05without interrupting power. According to the Department of Energy,

01:08NV, Energy has some of the best reliability and fewest interruptions in the country.

01:14This should make them even better in my mind. One of the best things we get out of it is it

01:20tells us about the quality of the power going through.

01:22It allows us to decide whether we need to do some preventative maintenance so that we can

01:26avoid an outage who can kind of um triangulate and tell us where the outage is so that we can

01:32get a crew in there more quickly, which is better for us safer,

01:36more effective gets the power back on more quickly.

01:39Today that uh drone you saw was used to get a bird's eye view of the work that was being done.

01:44NV. Energy hopes to complete installation of the

01:46sensors throughout the state by the end of the year and with a 45,000 square miles of service

01:52area. NV Energy has uh power lines and substations in

01:55some very remote locations. And this will make it easier,

01:59more cost efficient to monitor everything which until now had to be eyeballed by employees to

02:04drive some very long distances.