Deep dive
Why grid upgrades matter more than one week of dramatic weather headlines.
An evidence-led analysis of resilience spending, outage risk, and which infrastructure changes actually reduce heat vulnerability.
- Resilience spending only reduces outage duration where capital plans actually fund transformer replacement.
- Tier 1 neighborhoods saw a 51% reduction in mean outage duration over 5 years; Tier 3 saw an 11% increase.
- …and 2 more findings.
- Utility capital plans
- Regional heat-risk assessment
- Interviews with resilience planners