Brandon Hertell

Offering Manager IBM Analytics; AMS Certified Consulting Meteorologist

How Analytics is Helping Utilities Weather Storms

While an aging infrastructure and growing populations makes the electrical grid susceptible to failure, the majority (70 percent) of power outages are caused by the strains of wind, rain, sleet, snow and ice. The negative impact of storm-related outages to the U.S. economy is estimated between $20 billion and $55 billion annually. In a world […]