December 3 - 4, 2026 Online :: Central Time
“The content of the Best Practices in Wildfire Mitigation course and the discussions that arise always help me generate new ideas that lead to the improvement of my utility’s Wildfire Mitigation Plan.”
Wildfire Mitigation Program Manager, CORE Electric Cooperative“Understanding the perspectives of experienced industry leaders was incredibly insightful and invaluable for my team.”
Utilities Engineer, California Office of Energy Infrastructure SafetyWildfire risk is now a year-round operational, financial, and regulatory challenge for electric utilities. As fires grow more frequent, intense, and destructive, utilities face increasing exposure to asset loss, service disruptions, public safety liability, and reputational damage. New wildfire directives emerging across multiple states in 2026 are adding layers of compliance, documentation, and scrutiny, often without clear guidance on how utilities should justify decisions, budgets, and tradeoffs.
EUCI’s Best Practices for Utility Wildfire Mitigation Planning course is designed to address these exact challenges. This practical, utility-focused program goes beyond high-level policy to explore how utilities are building defensible, data-driven Wildfire Mitigation Plans (WMPs) that align engineering, operations, and regulatory expectations, and investment decision-making.
A key focus of the course is how tools such as Cost-Benefit Ratio (CBR) can support smarter decision-making by linking mitigation investments to measurable risk reduction, helping utilities demonstrate prudence, optimize spending, support regulatory defensibility, and explain tradeoffs across cost, feasibility, reliability, and public safety.
Attendees will leave with practical frameworks they can apply immediately to enhance wildfire mitigation planning, improve regulatory defensibility, and better manage wildfire risk in an increasingly complex landscape. The course will also help participants think like reviewers by examining what regulators, independent experts, boards, insurers, and post-event investigators may expect to see in a credible WMP.
Register now to equip your team with the strategies and tools needed to meet today’s wildfire mitigation demands with confidence.
Please Note: This event is being conducted entirely online. All attendees will connect and attend from their computer, one connection per purchase. For details please see our FAQ
If you are unable to attend at the scheduled date and time, we make recordings available to all attendees for 7 days after the event
| Individual attendee(s)$ 1295.00 each(early bird rate) (price after November 20, 2026 is $ 1,495.00) |
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Volume pricing also availableIndividual attendee tickets can be mixed with ticket packs for complete flexibility |
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| Pack of 5 attendees$ 5,500.00 (15% discount)(early bird rate) (price after November 20, 2026 is $ 6,350.00) |
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| Pack of 10 attendees$ 10,360.00 (20% discount)(early bird rate) (price after November 20, 2026 is $ 11,960.00) |
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| Pack of 20 attendees$ 19,425.00 (25% discount)(early bird rate) (price after November 20, 2026 is $ 22,425.00) |
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Your registration may be transferred to a member of your organization up to 24 hours in advance of the event. Cancellations must be received on or before October 30, 2026 in order to be refunded and will be subject to a US $195.00 processing fee per registrant. No refunds will be made after this date. Cancellations received after this date will create a credit of the tuition (less processing fee) good toward any other EUCI event. This credit will be good for six months from the cancellation date. In the event of non-attendance, all registration fees will be forfeited. In case of conference cancellation, EUCIs liability is limited to refund of the event registration fee only. For more information regarding administrative policies, such as complaints and refunds, please contact our offices at 303-770-8800
EUCI retains the right to refuse registration by any individual or company.
Thursday, December 3, 2026
Central Time
Online
Participants review a short mock WMP excerpt and identify whether it clearly links wildfire risk, mitigation selection, ownership, metrics, and regulatory alignment
Participants evaluate a sample WMP requirement from the perspective of a regulator, independent expert, utility executive, and post-event reviewer
Understanding fire risk remains the foundation of defensible mitigation planning. This session focuses on advanced, data-driven approaches utilities are using.
Using a tabletop exercise framework, participants build a simple decision record for an elevated fire-weather event, including trigger conditions, actions taken, internal approvals, customer considerations, and documentation needs
Using a tabletop exercise framework, participants walk through a hypothetical PSPS decision and identify what must be documented before, during, and after the event to support transparency, customer protection, and regulatory review
Participants compare cycle-based and risk-based vegetation work plans and identify which results in more risk reduction under constrained budgets and workforce limitations
Friday, December 4, 2026
Central Time
Online
This session examines how utilities are integrating mitigation strategies into day-to-day operations and long-term planning.
Participants compare reasonable mitigation alternatives for a high-risk circuit and document why one option may be preferred over another based on risk reduction, feasibility, timing, cost, reliability, and customer impact
Participants assess what information a utility would need to relay to customers, public safety partners, and how to restore operations after a wildfire
Participants use a practical checklist to identify the strongest and weakest areas of their current WMP approach and prioritize next steps for improvement
Principal Fire Protection & Wildfire Compliance Engineer
Bureau Veritas
Sarah Liuba is Principal Fire Protection & Wildfire Compliance Engineer at Bureau Veritas, specializing in wildfire mitigation planning, risk management, business continuity, and resilience. She has over 10 years of experience supporting investor-owned and public power utilities in the development and evaluation of Wildfire Mitigation Plans (WMPs), Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) programs, regulatory compliance efforts, and tabletop and full-scale emergency response simulations. Sarah began her utility career supporting mission-critical energy solutions at Bloom Energy before joining Alameda Municipal Power and later transitioning into utility consulting. She authored the first Wildfire Mitigation Plan Independent Evaluation for Sacramento Municipal Utility District in 2019, helping establish an assurance framework that has since matured into a broader wildfire mitigation evaluation practice across the western United States. She has authored several utility and transmission agency WMPs and carried out approximately 20 WMP Independent Evaluations. Sarah has also served as staff augmentation for utilities and agencies including the Transmission Agency of Northern California, Bear Valley Electric Service, Inc., NV Energy, and Liberty Utilities, supporting WMP development, implementation, and compliance. Additionally, she served as principal author for NV Energy’s Natural Disaster Protection Plan, which included 16 stakeholder engagement sessions and expert witness support before the Nevada Public Utilities Commission. Sarah holds bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and political science and a Master of Arts in International Environmental Policy from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
Director, Risk Fire & Life Safety Services
Bureau Veritas
Lisa’s career in the building and fire industry/fire service has spanned more than 25 years and she currently holds or has held positions as design engineer, project manager, engineering manager, building and fire plans examiner, fire & life safety consultant, supervisor of fire plan review, supervising fire protection engineer, adjunct professor, industry trainer, assistant to the Fire Marshal, department liaison, Senior Fire Protection and Loss Control Engineer, Fire Investigator, and Fire Marshal/Building Official.
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Participants must log in each day and be in attendance for the entirety of the course to be eligible for continuing education credit.
Case studies, PowerPoint presentations, and Q&A will be used in this event.
Upon successful completion of this event, program participants interested in receiving CPE credits will receive a certificate of completion.
Course CPE Credits: 7.5
There is no prerequisite for this Course.
Program field of study: Specialized Knowledge
Program Level: Basic
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based
Advanced Preparation: None
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