Light At the End of the Tunnel
The future is filled with a lot of great possibilities and that includes one where there will absolutely be no power outages. The Utility industries could make use of predictive analytics which has been tested and proven to be able to closely foresee future events and proffer solution to the problem. It works in such a way as creating alerts when technical faults develop, enabling specialists to fix them before the power outage manifests. In detail, Predictive analytics detects hitches much earlier on, like days or weeks prior to when the power outage would occur. As a result of using this wonderful marvel of technology, properties would be relocated and planned outages could be made to reduce damage. Firms would collect increased warnings of these problems, and undergo evasive actions to prevent losses within that given period. Also, power firms would be enabled to process necessary maintenance costs in advance with predictive analytics. For instance, servicing parts could be made to be be in shipping status already before the system may require maintenance.
Predictive Analysis vs Nature
In the not too distant future, we could have mastered the art of Science here, by modelling AI machine learning to predict the result of natural disasters on power systems. Texas A&M University researchers produced an intelligence model that can predict the effects of high-speed winds during severe weather so that trees which might fall on power lines in threatening locations be cut down earlier on. Currently, work of this nature is at a theoretical level. Basically the model is structured to accommodate various events of this kind and not just specific tree trimming operations. Dr. Mladen Kezunovic who improved on the system while working alongside a couple of interesting grad students hinted us that “Any kind of environmental data that has some relevance to the power system can be fed into this prediction framework”.