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We might be partway into winter, but the summer risks of wildfires to the grid will be here before we know it. This article details what utilities can do to try and combat extreme heat events and mass power outages for consumers. Technology is key, particularly the better use of data, real-time grid condition assessments and weather forecasting. Find out more!

We might be partway into winter, but the summer risks of wildfires to the grid will be here before we know it. This article details what utilities can do to try and combat extreme heat events and mass power outages for consumers. Technology is key, particularly the better use of data, real-time grid condition assessments and weather forecasting. Find out more!

Via Utility Dive: " Turning weather data into actionable information: Learn how DTN Storm Risk solutions optimize weather intelligence and machine learning to help utilities prepare for future weather impacts. " #Energy #Utility #Utilities

Reporting in today's New York Times print edition serves as a sobering reminder of the state of America's electrical infrastructure, highlighting the increasing risk of utility-caused wildfires across the nation, not just in #California. America's electric grids are built for a bygone era and struggle to cope with today's demands. This calls for urgent investment in modernizing our energy infrastructure to withstand the new climate reality. Public-private partnerships can play a crucial role here, offering innovative solutions and the necessary funding to revamp our electrical systems. The stakes couldn't be higher, with the safety of our communities and the reliability of our energy supply at risk. Embracing AI and other technological advancements will also be pivotal in making our energy systems more efficient and resilient against future challenges. Let's advocate for substantial investments and smart partnerships to safeguard our future. 🔌🌲 https://lnkd.in/gpr6yeid #EnergyInfrastructure #PublicPrivatePartnership #ClimateChange #BigRentz

Climate change puts pressure on the rail network as it endures more extreme weather, more frequently. Manual review is laborious, time-consuming and requires scarce, skilled resource. Frazer-Nash Consultancy has developed a web-based weather alerting tool that automates data retrieval, asset risk modelling & categorisation and control center processes to improve response times in emergency situations. Our tool allows you to: • predict how assets are affected by weather, • visualise the risk profile changes over a five-day future forecast • see contextual information, e.g. river gauge levels • understand the long-term erosion predictions for the region surrounding assets. Come and talk to us Rail Live today or tomorrow: Philip Harris, Ashley Stower, Trevor Morgan, Paul Whitcombe, Emma Hodgetts, Richard Wheldon

Interesting webinar Utilities face power outages, downtime costs, community safety, and low customer satisfaction due to severe weather events and other disruptions such as wildfires. Additionally, climate change and population growth are making the cost of such disruptions and their impact on customers a bigger risk for utilities. Managing severe weather and other disruptions requires good forecasting, planning, real-time power flow management and restoration execution. To meet these needs, utilities need to manage end-to-end the impact from severe weather events and disruptions, while limiting downtime, lowering cost, improving safety, and satisfying customers. Join us on Wednesday, September 13 for a live webinar at either 12:00 h (Central Europe Summer Time) - How to manage disruptions - How to integrate proactive vegetation management into your disruption workflow for better impact results Registration page here: https://lnkd.in/dc7T-UZt #gevernova #gridos #vegetationmanagement

In the face of climate change, ensuring the resilience of our infrastructure against extreme weather events is paramount. Our recent work, published in the Journal of Data in Brief, titled "Weather Data Analysis and Building Performance Assessment During Extreme Climate Events: A Canadian AMY Weather File Data Set," addresses this challenge head-on. This research introduces a dataset of Actual Meteorological Year (AMY) weather files, derived from historical extreme weather events across Canada, providing a critical foundation for accurate building performance simulations in the face of grid outages and climate-induced extremes. I extend my deepest gratitude to my supervisor, Scott Bucking, and Santinah Green-Mignacca for their invaluable guidance and support throughout this research endeavor. Our work underscores the urgent need for advanced simulation tools that incorporate real-world climate data, enabling architects, engineers, and policy-makers to design and retrofit buildings that are not only energy-efficient but also resilient to the unpredictable whims of our changing climate. https://lnkd.in/dqyW7s2R #ClimateResilience #BuildingPerformance #SustainableDesign #ClimateChangeAdaptation #ResearchPublication

We hope everyone is safe and doing well after the severe thunder storms last night! Storms like the ones we had are occurring more often and are leaving more damage in their wake. This is an interesting article that discusses the increase in power outages due to extreme weather. The article points out that 80% of major power outages in the US from 2000 to 2023 were due to extreme weather, with the South and Southeast seeing the largest number of outages. Extreme heat and violent storms, combined with an aging power grid that grapples with over population, adds to the increase in the frequency and duration of the outages.  One way to make sure to protect your home and family from the effects of any power outage is to install a whole house backup power system. Within seconds of an outage, your generator will kick on and keep your electricity, appliances, and HVAC system operating. Call (864) 457-1409 for a free quote on how you can protect your home from the next outage. Click on the link below to read the full article.  https://lnkd.in/efgNCzh5 #poweroutage #poweroutages #backuppower #backuppowersupply #backuppowersolutions #backuppowersystem #generator #generators #generatorservices #generac #generacdealer

Increasingly severe weather events and the outages they cause shine a bright spotlight on the aging grid infrastructure, particularly the need for hardening and upgrading the distribution grid–the last mile of the grid. Fortunately, we have the technology to make the distribution grid more intelligent and automated. Find out more in Tim Qualheim’s EE Power article. #GridResilience #PowerUtilities #GridTransformation #ClimateChange http://ow.ly/KB9i104USRJ

Increasingly severe weather events and the outages they cause shine a bright spotlight on the aging grid infrastructure, particularly the need for hardening and upgrading the distribution grid–the last mile of the grid. Fortunately, we have the technology to make the distribution grid more intelligent and automated. Find out more in Tim Qualheim’s EE Power article. #GridResilience #PowerUtilities #GridTransformation #ClimateChange http://ow.ly/KB9i104USRJ