Extreme weather preparedness has never been more consequential for utilities — and the decisions made days before a storm makes landfall shape everything that follows, from mutual assistance requests and crew staging to restoration timelines and customer communications. In this session, Centerpoint and Technosylva Lead Data Scientist Pavel Grechanuk will present on how Technosylva has partnered with CenterPoint Energy to develop and validate an advanced outage prediction and grid damage model. The model delivers pre-event predictions across critical storm restoration dimensions — outage magnitude, geographic concentration, damage composition, and resourcing needed to hit ETR targets. This information provides EOC teams with the lead time necessary for credible, effective, proactive decisions.