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Storm Resilience & Impact Modelling

Identify network vulnerabilities and simulate corridor exposure before severe weather strikes.

NM Group combines high-density LiDAR, engineering analysis, PLS-CADD modelling, and advanced predictive analytics to assess storm-related risks across transmission and distribution networks, helping utilities prioritise grid-hardening investments before extreme weather events occur.

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Resilience Intelligence for Utility Networks

Prepare for severe weather. Strengthen resilience.

When severe weather hits, utilities face the dual threat of structural damage and widespread vegetation-related outages. Our predictive modelling simulates how assets, conductors, and surrounding canopies will perform under extreme environmental stress. By integrating structural engineering models with real-world vegetation data, we help you transition from defensive post-storm recovery to proactive, data-verified network hardening—protecting your infrastructure and maintaining reliable operations.

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FAQs

Analysis can include mechanical wind loading, snow and ice loading, conductor clash risk, vegetation-related outage risk, flooding exposure, and asset vulnerability assessment.

Yes. Vegetation analytics can be combined with weather exposure models and historic tree-fall patterns to identify vegetation more likely to contribute to storm-related outages.

Assessment results help utilities plan reinforcement, asset replacement, vegetation management, and other grid-hardening activities based directly on identified structural and environmental vulnerabilities.

From Survey Data to Storm Resilience Intelligence

NM Group combines LiDAR, engineering analysis, PLS-CADD modelling and advanced geospatial analytics to assess how assets, conductors and vegetation may respond to severe weather events.

By integrating network models with environmental and vegetation data, utilities gain the insight needed to understand vulnerabilities, prioritise intervention activities and support long-term resilience planning.

  • Weather Loading Simulation

    Assess how conductors and structures may respond to mechanical stresses under extreme weather conditions, including high winds, snow, and ice events.

  • Vegetation Exposure Mapping

    Identify vegetation zones more likely to contribute to storm-related outages using proximity analysis, weather exposure maps, and tree-fall modelling.

  • Conductor Clash & Storm Exposure

    Model line movement and evaluate the potential impact of structural or clearance failures under severe storm environments.

Supporting proactive resilience strategies

Storm Resilience Assessment provides utilities with engineering-led analysis that supports informed decision-making before severe weather events occur.

By understanding how assets, conductors and vegetation may respond to extreme weather conditions, utilities can focus resources where they will have the greatest impact on network resilience.

  • Prioritise Resilience Investment

    Focus maintenance, reinforcement, and vegetation management activities where they will deliver the greatest statistical reduction in outage risk.

  • Support Storm Preparedness

    Use predictive analysis to optimise emergency response planning, asset staging, and field interventions before severe weather events occur.

  • Assess Asset Vulnerability

    Understand which specific structures, conductors, and corridor components are most susceptible to storm-related impacts.

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Ready to identify your network's structural and environmental vulnerabilities?

Our specialists combine utility engineering with advanced geospatial modelling to help you fortify your infrastructure against extreme weather.

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