Preparing the electric grid for increasingly frequent and severe weather events and changing climate conditions. Research is advancing tools and strategies that help utilities reduce outages, protect critical infrastructure, and strengthen recovery by:

• Improving prediction of weather-related outages and grid disruptions.
• Identifying vulnerabilities in substations and other critical infrastructure.
• Assessing risks from flooding, vegetation, and extreme weather.
• Developing tools that help prioritize resilience investments.
• Strengthening emergency response and grid restoration planning.

Our research is equipping utilities with better tools to predict, prepare for, and respond to extreme weather events. These efforts are helping identify vulnerabilities before failures occur, inform resilience investments, and reduce the impact and duration of outages.