The Eversource Energy Center, which is pursuing high tech, state-of-the-art approaches for delivering reliable power and responding to extreme weather events, is collaborating with scientists from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the University of Alabama-Huntsville to use imagery of night time light and Eversource's historical outage data to better detect and monitor a storm's impact, and the recovery of an electric grid after a large-scale power outage. Using a satellite, orbiting 512 miles above the earth, our collaboration with NASA may also help utilities in the U.S. and abroad to monitor the extent of outages and provide guidance on priority restoration locations. While Eversource uses an Outage Management System (OMS) to track locations needing repair as the electric grid is restored after an event, there are utilities operating without an OMS. As part of this collaboration with NASA, our Center will seek federal funding for disaster response research through the use of satellite imagery. Click here to learn more about the Eversource Energy Center at the University of Connecticut: https://www.eversource.com/Content/ct-e/about/community/eversource-energy-center-at-uconn
For more information, contact: Dave Wanik, Center Manager at dave.wanik@uconn.edu