Iberdrola: grid resilience to extreme weather

Type: Deployment - Sector: Energy - Region: Spain

Iberdrola asked how to protect 1.1M km of line from the climate. We won the challenge. The forecasts existed; the decision did not. Between a weather model and a crew dispatched to the right tower there was nothing but human judgement under time pressure.

01 The problem

Extreme weather moves faster than crews can be positioned. The forecasts existed; what was missing was the step that turned them into where to send people and what to do first. Across 1.1M km of line, that decision was made event by event, in real time.

02 The system

A resilience layer built on the Engine: asset models, high-resolution weather, and a failure-probability model per span, resolved to the map the control room already uses. Risk arrives inside the existing workflow, ready to act on before the storm.

03 The outcome

The operator now pre-positions crews and de-energizes selectively before the event, not after. Response to climate events is 73% faster, restoration windows shortened.

73% faster response / 1.1M km of predictive coverage / PERSEO winner

Sources:

• Iberdrola teams up with Basque startup Woza to shield power lines from climate change, Iberdrola press room.-
• Iberdrola turns to AI for power line resilience, Latitude Media.