What Power Outage Prediction can do for your business
The connection between weather and power outages has long been a problem for utilities. Restoring distribution system outages is a major operational cost in adverse weather. If a power outage occurs, utilities have a small window of time to restore power before customers get upset and regulators seek answers. Outage Prediction is an automated, customizable cloud-based solution that uses weather data and forecasting expertise with client data sets to develop machine-learning predictive models that help utility companies proactively prepare their response to weather events, improve restoration times and boost customer and regulatory satisfaction.
Benefits of Weather Company Outage Prediction
Enhance customer experience
Proactively inform your customers of potential storm outages and the estimated response time based on outage predictions.
Reduce restoration times
Prepare and respond to power outages more effectively when severe weather strikes and restore your services faster by releasing crews sooner in the right location and at the right time.
Increase operational efficiency
More accurately predict the correct level of resources necessary prior to a storm to optimize costly mobilizations and maximize the use of your restoration resources.
Outage Prediction features
- Use the interactive dashboard to monitor power outages in your area
- Get a prediction model with 72-hour lead time
- Quickly identify risk areas
- Use the map legend to identify different mobilization levels
- Access forecast and observed weather layers
- Analyze power outage prediction trends
- Apply scenario planning
- Perform historical storm searches
Weather Company Outage Prediction in action
Bring together the most important information to drive your decisions
Define best- and worst-case scenarios by looking at variable factors
Access forecast and observed weather data
Visualize how the power outage forecast has been trending
Compare historical storm data with current forecast conditions
See mobilization levels predicted for a given area
Testimonials
“ The Weather Company solution is helping us optimize our use of resources across the province. We were recently able to reconnect 90 percent of our storm-hit customers within just 24 hours, which is a very positive result. ”
- Tony O'Hara
- CTO and VP Engineering
- Énergie NB Power
“ We’ve always been good at responding to major events and weather events. But our responses have been reactionary. Now, we aim to be more proactive in managing events—and the Outage Prediction tool is making this happen. We’ve cut our response time in half by being able to be better prepared. ”
- Derek Roles
- Director of Emergency Preparedness and Restoration
- Hydro One