From the field

The climagrid blog

Standards, signals, and operations for the people who keep rural power flowing. Clear writing on the engineering behind weather stress analysis.

How IEEE C57.91 turns a heat wave into transformer loss-of-life

A plain-language walk through the thermal aging model utility engineers rely on, and how public weather data feeds it.

What ASCE 7-22 ice accretion means for rural distribution lines, and how to spot the spans carrying the heaviest combined loads.

Fuel, drought, and fire-weather signals can flag the spans and poles operating in elevated wildfire conditions.

Rural co-ops maintain enormous territories with small crews. Here is how open, standards-based scoring changes the math.

Engineers trust what they can audit. Transparent, standards-based features are also better fuel for future ML models.