AI Now Predicts Blackouts Caused by Storms

In light of this, Roope Tervo, a software architect at the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) and PhD researcher at Aalto university in Professor Alex Jung's research group, has conceived of a machine learning approach to predict how severe storms may be. To achieve this Tervo first fed the system data from power-outages. "Storms were sorted into 4 classes. A class 1 storm cut-off up to 10% of transformers, a class 2 up to 50%, and a class 3 storm cut power to over 50% of the transformers," revealed an Aalto University statement. Secondly, Tervo took the data from the storms and made it easy for the computer to understand.