Identifying grid outages is one of the more challenging problems utility companies face. Severe storms alone leave costly outages in their wakes while major events, such as hurricanes and tornadoes, produce long-term outages that cost billions in revenues and repairs. A recent 10-day outage, for instance, cost one utility company more than $138 million, says…

Real-time visualization and analytics software company, Space-Time Insight, recently released new software that uses weather forecasts and grid data to predict the impact of a severe storm on customers and assets. In this podcast, Steve Ehrlich, SVP of Marketing at Space-Time Insight, will discuss the software, its benefits to the grid and the wind energy industry.…