UtilityDive discusses how utilities can focus planning and investment around the risk that comes with more and more extreme climate events. They suggest a dedicated team with clear ownership and responsibility for in-depth and iterative scoping and setting of expectations among internal and external stakeholders. They also talk about conducting model-based evals across an integrated modeling platform, ensuring load data used for planning and evaluation reflects weather dependency for selected conditions and tech, and comparing baseline model results to results with the various adaptations in place.
