In today’s energy landscape, weather isn’t just a variable - it’s a critical factor in planning, risk mitigation, and operational efficiency. From severe storms to shifts in cloud cover or wind speed, every weather element can impact infrastructure performance, crew safety, and energy delivery.
Baron Weather delivers high-resolution, ArcGIS-integrated weather data designed specifically for energy and utility providers. By visualizing real-time weather impacts within your ArcGIS workflows, Baron helps turn weather from a liability into a strategic asset.
ArcGIS + Baron's Data: A Powerful Partnership
Baron offers a full suite of high-resolution data products, APIs, and weather layers tailored for seamless integration into Esri’s ArcGIS platforms. With point, raster, and vector data available, Baron’s data delivers a real-time, visual understanding of how weather affects your operations, assets, and infrastructure.
Whether monitoring lightning near a substation or forecasting wind speeds across a solar farm, integrating weather data into ArcGIS empowers faster decisions, smarter planning, and better safety outcomes.
Real-World Applications in Action
Building Grid Resilience
For electric utilities, protecting infrastructure and minimizing outage time during severe weather is critical. Baron’s real-time weather layers, including wind gusts, lightning, ice accumulation, and flash flooding, can be overlaid in ArcGIS to highlight areas of concern and trigger data-driven alerts.
Automated Alerting
Using Baron’s Weather Logic web application, create automated data-driven alerts to trigger the latest updates or crew deployments. This proactive approach helps shorten restoration times and improve customer satisfaction.
Optimizing Wind and Solar Output
Baron provides weather forecasts such as solar irradiance, wind speed, and cloud cover that help renewable energy operators optimize production and plan maintenance.
Solar Forecasting for Load Planning
Solar farms can integrate Baron’s irradiance and cloud cover forecasts into their workflow to improve power production predictions. This supports better coordination with grid load planning, helping to maintain output and avoid costly curtailments.
Wind Alerting for Turbine Safety
With Baron’s severe wind alerts delivered via SMS and email, turbine activity can be automatically paused when forecasted gusts exceed safe operating thresholds, extending turbine life, reducing emergency maintenance, and improving worker safety.
Predictive Wind Outage Planning
Baron’s wind forecast data can be layered with infrastructure maps and historical outage records to identify zones at greatest risk. Utilities can use this to schedule inspections and deploy crews proactively, before the storm arrives.
Real-Time Asset Awareness
Utilities face increasing pressure to reduce outage time and harden infrastructure against extreme weather. Baron’s live data feeds, such as lightning strikes, damaging winds, and flooding risk, provide real-time situational awareness directly within ArcGIS Dashboards.
Lightning Near High-Voltage Assets
By tracking cloud-to-ground strikes near substations and key infrastructure, utilities can trigger custom data-driven alerts when lightning enters a predefined radius, enabling faster assessments and quicker responses to potential damage, all while keeping field workers safe.
Supporting Emergency Response
In emergency situations, speed and accuracy are everything. Baron’s ArcGIS data services help utilities assess risk and mobilize teams quickly while prioritizing safety.
Flash Flood Monitoring for Field Teams
Using Baron’s real-time flood detection layer, visualize flooded access roads and staging areas directly in ArcGIS. This allows for timely crew rerouting and immediate communication of high-risk zones, reducing delays and improving safety.
Planning for the Future: Compliance and Resilience
Beyond day-to-day operations, Baron supports long-term planning and regulatory compliance with historical trends, climatological risk layers, and predictive modeling tools.
Infrastructure and Site Planning
With access to over 300 weather data layers and historical trends, Baron’s datasets guide capital investments, assess site risks, and harden infrastructure in vulnerable regions.
Climate Adaptation Strategy
Baron’s data helps organizations develop climate adaptation strategies by supporting vegetation management, asset placement, and regulatory compliance. Long-term risk modeling enhances insights for tomorrow’s weather challenges.
Weatherproof Your World
Weather is one of the most powerful forces acting on the energy sector. It influences everything from grid stability to crew deployment, and it’s only becoming more impactful as climate patterns shift.
With Baron, energy leaders gain the tools to reduce risk, protect critical infrastructure, and respond with precision before, during, and after every weather event. Dynamic weather calls for decisive data. See how our solutions can help Weatherproof Your World here.
