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Research article
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11 Feb 2021
Research article |
| 11 Feb 2021
| 11 Feb 2021
Predicting power outages caused by extratropical storms
Finnish Meteorological Institute, B.O. 503, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
Ilona Láng
Finnish Meteorological Institute, B.O. 503, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
Alexander Jung
Aalto University, Department of Computer Science, B.O. 11000, 00076 Aalto, Finland
Antti Mäkelä
Finnish Meteorological Institute, B.O. 503, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
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Short summary
Predicting the number of power outages caused by extratropical storms is a key challenge for power grid operators. We introduce a novel method to predict the storm severity for the power grid employing ERA5 reanalysis data combined with a forest inventory. The storms are first identified from the data and then classified using several machine-learning methods. While there is plenty of room to improve, the results are already usable, with support vector classifier providing the best performance.
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