International Wildfire Risk Mitigation Consortium (IWRMC)
A Collaborative Solution
The IWRMC is an industry-sponsored collaborative designed to facilitate the sharing of wildfire risk mitigation insights and discovery of innovative and unique utility wildfire practices from across the globe.
The program is led by a Utility Executive Steering Group, whose members are on the frontlines of the wildfire/bushfire issues in Australia and California:

IWRMC in a nutshell: Acquaint yourself with IWRMC with this short (< 2 minute) introductory video.

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Electric T&D company from Victoria, Australia with over 740,000 customers

Electric Distribution company serving the City of Melbourne, with over 800,000 customers

Electric T&D company serving Northern and Central California with over 5.4 million customers

Electric T&D company serving Southern California with over 5.1 million customers

Electric T&D company serving San Diego & Southern Orange Counties with over 1.4 million customers
Vision

Learning

Innovation

Analysis

Collaboration
- Leverage global experience/ideas, and identify meaningful differences
- Accelerate learning, sharing, and the development of new risk models and mitigation strategies;
- Expedite data collection, validation, and evaluation
- Introduce new technology and advance the deployment of innovative solutions
- Enable members to lead the industry transformation
- Establish good standing with regulators and the community via the development of initiatives based on innovative global practices
- Establish global standards that can be leveraged by members to demonstrate a proactive, holistic, and responsible approach to risk mitigation
Working Groups
Working Group discussions cover many different topics and focus areas. Members routinely share their experiences and help to identify industry leading practices. Occasionally, members invite leading vendors who they have worked with to share more information on the products and services they offer in order to improve and expedite decision making for those exploring similar options.
Some recent topics explored & presentations made within the working groups include:
Examples of Topics to Be Explored
Additional IWRMC Members

Core Program
Similar to CEATI and EPRI, the IWRMC program offers both core program components and optional modules that will vary from quarter to quarter.
- Working Groups, as established by the (IWRMC) Steering Group, focus attention on the most pressing issues and the most valuable collaborative opportunities.
- News & Research Web Portal updated and curated weekly with the latest wildfire/bushfire-related news, academic research, regulations, and mitigation plans from utilities around the world.
- Surveys of Industry Peers to gather insights into the processes, methodologies, tools, and standards utilized by utilities to support their wildfire risk mitigation activities.
- Deep-Dive Analyses using public and/or member-contributed data and supported by UMS Group’s expert analytic and modeling teams.
- Case Studies to communicate relevant experiences and provide lessons learned to the broader industry.
- Quarterly Webinars to share Working Group progress and insights, and to present new and interesting concepts to your industry peers.
- Annual Report & Conference to present progress on annual program objectives, highlight the most impactful insights gained, strengthen industry relationships and solicit feedback from participants.
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Research Projects. To explore specific topics and investigate ideas that have not been pursued, or have been insufficiently pursued to date, by the industry or academia.
- Joint Development Projects. To pool resources, coordinate data collection, and document real-world results in the pursuit of new ideas, approaches, and innovations.
- New Technology & Tools. To explore the vendor landscape, broaden the dataset of real-world experiences, and utilize collective leverage to deploy new tools and technologies quickly and affordably.
- Benchmarking, Analysis & Performance Metrics. To better understand your organization’s performance relative to the industry, or track progress over time, in relation to highly specific topics or activities.
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