[Dangeranger]

When I was working for electrical utilities and tracking climate data over a service territory a service like this with an API would have been invaluable. I would have thrown money hand over fist at them. Particularly if I could predict accurately micro-conditions within the next 12-24 hours.

[timedivers]

The microconditions are tricky, but yes there is business there. We've done a few proof of concepts using CV + ML/statistics in the area of storm tracking.

Do you have any insight into what the electrical utilities companies are doing these days in terms of weather forecasting?

[Dangeranger]

At the time I was using the National Climatic Data Center's datasets from AWOS and ASOS and combining that with locally sourced airport weather stations, mobile micro-climate stations, and helicopter mounted climate collection systems. It was a lot of fun... :(

We were evaluating using a service provider such as Weather Underground or AWS Truepower. But those providers couldn't deliver the granularity or locality of collection that we needed for our obligations.

The utility industry required aerial LiDAR collection to be partnered with same time collection of local climate conditions for use in modeling the impact of wind/solar/temp on conductor line sag. We did a bunch of pioneering work in that area back in 2012.