Rhizome

Founded 2023

Model climate threats and prioritize grid investments for electric utility systems

You can use Rhizome to evaluate climate risks across electrical infrastructure and plan long-term utility investments. Instead of relying on historical weather records, the software models forward-looking climate hazards across multiple decades to pinpoint vulnerable assets. You can calculate potential outage costs, run detailed cost-benefit analyses, and determine exactly which grid hardening projects to fund first. Utility planners use these data-driven models to justify capital spending plans to regulators, defend rate cases, protect local communities from power interruptions, and upgrade critical energy networks against extreme weather threats.

What Rhizome does

Model future climate hazards across utility service territoriesIdentify vulnerable transformers, poles, and transmission assetsCalculate avoided outage costs from resilience investmentsGenerate cost-benefit reports for regulatory rate casesRank grid hardening projects by risk reduction impactSimulate severe weather events against existing infrastructureDecadal climate threat modelingAsset-level vulnerability mappingOutage duration and cost projectionsCost-benefit analysis for grid upgradesCapital project prioritization scoringRegulatory filing and justification support