In a battle against Mother Nature, utility companies are facing pressure to improve grid performance as climate events become more frequent and severe. Improving grid reliability and resiliency, weatherizing and ultimately modernizing utilities limits the number of customers impacted and reduces outage times to aid rescues and save lives during disaster.
A Sharp Rise in Weather-Related Events
North America has experienced an upward trend of natural disasters since the 1980s–2020 being the most devastating year to date. Notably, there were wildfires in the West, hurricanes in the East, derechos in the Midwest, and an unprecedented snowstorm named Uri in the South that crippled the state of Texas’s power grid.
