CenterPoint Energy and Technosylva Announce Collaboration to Enhance Grid Resilience

CenterPoint Energy, a leading electric and natural gas utility across Texas, Indiana, Ohio, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Mississippi, announced a collaboration and Memorandum of Understanding with Technosylva to bolster CenterPoint’s resilience against the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events.

By leveraging Technosylva’s advanced AI and machine learning capabilities, CenterPoint gains valuable insights into potential threats to its infrastructure. Technosylva’s risk monitoring platform provides real-time data and predictive analytics, enabling CenterPoint to identify vulnerable areas and proactively address potential risks to its assets and the communities it serves.

“Our defining goal is to build the most resilient coastal grid in the country that can better withstand the extreme weather that we continue to see impact our nation, and I believe that our work with Technosylva will help us achieve this ambition,” said Jason Wells, President and CEO of CenterPoint. “Technosylva’s world class, predictive analytics and mitigation platform for extreme weather events and wildfires, combined with their market-leading software and AI and Machine Learning-based tools, will provide us with more timely and accurate insights into threats to our infrastructure. This is a key step toward achieving our goal of becoming a national leader in utility resilience and emergency preparedness and response.”

“We are thrilled to work with the CenterPoint Energy leadership team as they work to continue to deliver resilient, reliable, safe, and sustainable energy to their customers,” said Bryan Spear, CEO of Technosylva. “As utilities work to harden the power grid for increasingly common extreme weather events, it’s critical they have the most accurate and timely intelligence possible to plan, prepare, and protect their networks to be able to keep the lights on for their customers.”

This collaboration aligns with CenterPoint’s ongoing commitment to invest in resilience initiatives, highlighted by its $21 billion investment over the next five years to improve reliability and system modernization.

The collaboration between CenterPoint and Technosylva marks a significant step towards building a more resilient and reliable power grid and ensuring uninterrupted service to its customers, even in extreme weather conditions.

Learn more in CenterPoint’s October 8, 2024, press release.