Abstract Purpose of Review Power outages, a common and underappreciated consequence
of natural disasters, are increasing in number and severity due to climate change and aging …

Leveraging computational analysis of remotely sensed data captured over nearly 3,000
nights, we generate indicators of electricity poverty at the settlement level and over time. We …

Increased sensing and data collection in electric power systems from utility to minigrid to
individual household scale are resulting in an explosion of data collection about users and …

Abstract The United Nations identifies ensuring 'access to affordable, reliable, sustainable
and modern energy for all'as one of its Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. This article …

The detection of power outages is an essential activity for electric utilities. A large, national
dataset of Internet-connected thermostats was used to explore and illustrate the ability of …

In much of the world, electricity grids are not instrumented at the customer level, limiting
insights into the power quality experienced by utility customers. Moreover, to understand …

The vision of sensor systems that collect critical and previously ungathered information
about the world is often only realized when sensors, students, and subjects move outside …

Power blackouts (outages) are a common occurrence in Kenyan households. They affect
people's livelihoods, and damage their property (household electrical items). We explore the …

Utilities across the world struggle to accurately measure electricity reliability on their grids;
the average utility in a 109-country sample underestimates outages by a factor of 7 (relative …

Crowdsourcing has been successfully applied in many domains including astronomy,
cryptography, and biology. In order to test its potential for useful application in a smart grid …