New online services deliver more accurate forecasts and more timely alerts. Mother Nature, a power grid's biggest adversaty, causes most outages and shapes the demand for electricity. New weather-monitoring and prediction tools make more accurate forecasts and deliver automatic alerts for lightning, wind, ice, snow, tornados and hurricanes Combining temperature with cloud cover, humidity and wind speed helps co-ops improve load forecasting while lightning monitoring improves crew safety and outage management. Weather data can be integrated with existing co-op geographic information systems (GIS) and outage-management systems (OMS) for more efficient dispatching.
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