ALBANY – Researchers at the University at Albany are building a computer model that will predict weather-related electrical outages across North America using artificial intelligence and storm outage data from electric utilities.
The project is known as the North American Forecasting Weather, Outage, Load & Damage Initiative, and it is the latest collaboration between UAlbany and University at Connecticut through the joint Center for Weather Innovation and Smart Energy and Resilience.
Known as WISER, the weather research center was launched in 2023 with funding from the National Science Foundation to study utility-scale energy systems in the context of weather and climate science. WISER’s funding included $750,000 from the NSF and $3.7 million over five years from electrical utilities that participate in the project…