Weather is the main predictor of demand, and a primary cause of outages. Make critical business decisions with Telvent’s accurate forecasts and alerts specifically for gas and electric utilities, and wind farms.
With reliable, precise weather data — including real-time lightning detection and alerting — you’ll be able to:
- Produce more accurate load forecasts
- Make better purchasing or power marketing decisions
- Restore power faster and reduce lost revenue
- Operate more safely with minimal downtime
More than 70 percent of the major IOUs and large co-ops in the United States rely on Telvent’s:
- Patented*, customizable alerting for the weather conditions directly affecting your operation, staff, equipment resources, and customers
- High-resolution online maps, allowing you to zoom in to any point within your service territory, with improved navigation and direct access to forecast information
- Exclusive advice from our professional meteorologists, 24/7, accessible online, over the phone, and now via mobile device for answers to your critical questions
- Proven accuracy performance — the industry’s most accurate day-one and day-two temperature forecasts
Telvent also offers these new capabilities…
- New! GPS-based roaming weather and lightning alerts for your current position — automatically pushed to your Apple® iPhone or Android®, updated automatically wherever you go
- New! The ability to track and display the location of your crews on your weather map based on their Apple iPhones' or Androids' GPSs
- New! Animated mobile weather maps for MxVision WeatherSentry Mobile® users with lightning strikes, radar, pan and zoom capabilities, and more for a complete weather picture on the go
- New! A third lightning range ring provides a caution zone for a three-step response to lightning dangers
Telvent offers complete solutions for the Smart Grid — click here for more information.
“I can get lightning information from other services, but it’s not in real time. This system's information is up to the minute, which is most important to me."
— Don Hopkins, plant leader, Ashtabula Wind
* Products mentioned above may be covered by one or more of the following patents: U.S. Patent No. 6,753,784, or 7,602,285