The Temperature’s Rising, It Isn’t Surprising: Building Network Resilience in a Warmer Climate’

Time: 10 AM EDT / 4 PM CEST There are three or four days every year that make or break a utility's summer. The grid operators who get those days right aren't just better at meteorology — they're running better data. Record heat, surging coincident-peak demand, escalating wildfire ignition risk, and increasingly unpredictable convective events are rewriting the operational playbook for power networks. The margin for error is shrinking. A 5km forecast isn't enough when a wildfire is developing 3km from your transmission corridor. A 24-hour severe weather alert doesn't help when a derecho can redraw your outage map in under an hour. What's changing is that the tools to get ahead of this now exist — and utilities already deploying them are seeing measurable results. What you'll learn: • How Dynamic Line Rating is unlocking spare transmission capacity before peak demand hits — and what that looks like in practice (live example from Heimdall Power) • Why "Hitzeflaute" events — the convergence of extreme heat, low wind, and constrained solar — are the hidden risk most demand forecasts aren't modeling yet • How 1km-resolution, hourly-refresh weather models are being used to sharpen PSPS decisions, reduce false alarms, and give field crews 46+ hours of lead time across hundreds of weather zones • Wildfire risk monitoring in practice: from fire-weather threshold visualization to asset-level risk mapping across your full service territory • Lightning detection advances and what they actually change for outage prediction and crew dispatch • What a significant El Niño event in 2026 means for your summer load forecast — and how to pressure-test your models before peak season arrives • Live demo: querying hyperlocal weather data over a real utility service territory using the Meteomatics API and AI Confirmed Speaker Heimdall Power — How Dynamic Line Rating is helping utilities increase transmission capacity and improve grid resilience under increasingly challenging weather conditions. Additional speakers and panelists to be announced.