Snow & Ice Management

Keep the power on and your customers warm when winter turns severe.

Extreme snow and ice can pull lines down, snap poles, and leave customers out in the cold. Your digital network model lets you see where winter will hit hardest, decide what to protect first, and plan how to bring customers back online with decisions you can defend.

Simulate wintry weather to see where snow and ice are most likely to accumulate and cause structural damage or drive line temperatures low enough to risk loss of supply.
Understand how a cascading pole failure scenario will play out under different loading conditions so you can act before equipment starts to fail.
Restore power as soon as it is safely possible and apply what you learn from each storm to improve reliability for the next cold snap.

Where is your network most vulnerable to snow and ice?

Identify where snow and ice will be troublesome

Use your digital network model to test how assets will behave under snow and ice loads across different parts of your territory. Vary asset characteristics and weather conditions to see:

Which spans, poles, and structures are most likely to experience overload, galloping, or clearance issues.
How snowfall depth and ice thickness at different elevations translate into mechanical stress on specific assets.
Where equipment damage, outages, and hazardous conditions for crews and the community are most likely.

With that picture, you can plan targeted grid hardening measures that fit the realities of your network instead of relying on generic design rules.

How do you stay ahead of failures as the storm develops?

Know where to direct your attention next

Track where snow is piling up, where ice is forming, and how your network is likely to respond as conditions change. Maintain situational awareness so you can:

See where loading is approaching critical limits and where cascading pole failures are most likely to start.
Decide where to reduce loading, reconfigure, or shed demand before assets fail.
Keep emergency response crews, field teams, and local agencies aligned on what is happening and what will happen next.

This helps you move from scattered reports to a shared, model based view of network risk during winter storms.

How quickly and safely can you bring customers back online?

Heat up your network as fast as possible

Reduce the time it takes to restore power safely for as many customers as you can reach.

Prioritize repairs and restoration work based on which locations your field teams can physically access under snow and ice conditions.
Use your digital network model to pull a clear snapshot of damaged and at risk assets and the customers each repair will bring back online.
Cut down on unnecessary truck rolls by giving crews a precise picture of likely damage and access constraints before they leave the depot.

The result is a winter response you can explain to leadership, regulators, and customers, backed by transparent, auditable calculations instead of guesswork.