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Business Innovation Programs Help Entrepreneurs Turn Promising Ideas into Market-Ready Products
10 Feb 2025
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The wildfires raging across California have renewed discussion about how to minimize these devastating disasters. Fast Forward, a small business in Kearney, is using funds from Nebraska’s Business Innovation Act (BIA) Program to aid wildfire prevention. They’re helping utilities inspect powerlines more quickly so that anomalies can be identified and repaired before causing a problem.
“In many areas, it still takes over 10 years for a utility to do a pass of their system,” said Dusty Birge, who founded Fast Forward in 2022. “That excessive window of time is leading to preventable power outages and wildfires.”
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