Environmental Stewardship: Raising the Standards of IVM

The Right-of-Way Steward Accreditation is an initiative intended to set the standard for responsible management of land and operations on transmission corridors. Launched in 2013 by the Right-of-Way Stewardship Council (ROWSC), this model follows the lead of the Electric Power Research Institute’s Standards for Assessing Performance of Integrated Vegetation Management on Electric Transmission Rights-of-Way and is informed by other well-established accreditation programs such as those used in the forest products industry.