PLYMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Plymouth State University is partnering with Eversource to develop a power outage prediction model to predict when storms will strike and the extent of the damage they may cause.

The new research partnership connects Plymouth State to the Eversource Energy Center at the University of Connecticut. Plymouth State offers the only meteorological academic degree program in New Hampshire, and the new project will build on its previous research on weather-related outages.

Officials say the partnership will provide students with valuable hands-on training.