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Keeping your energy power network connected - Energy & Utility Weather Forecast

With weather foresight, actionable analytics and precise alerting for utility & energy weather forecasting

Are you safeguarding your utilities assets and personnel from the threat of increasingly volatile weather?

DTN APAC, offers precise weather intelligence and alerting to protect your utilities network when severe weather, floods and fires threaten.

Over 80% of Australian transmission and distribution networks already rely on our proven nowcasting and forecasting out to 15 days. You can rest assured yours is protected by market-leading analysis. With this foresight you can gain lead time to prepare for possible outages, reduce risk and protect your people and profits.

You will never be left in the dark when conditions suddenly worsen. We deliver reliable, up-to-the-minute weather forecasts and analytical tools that give you the power to enhance your operational management and response to weather risk. Our Total Lightning Network is a globally proven solution that accurately identifies and alerts you to lightning strikes within your defined thresholds, supporting the safety of your team.

Your customisable interface has GIS mapping, showing multiple weather layers over your utilities network and offering full situational awareness. You can quickly recognise any threat to your assets in real-time. 24-hour asset monitoring allows you to track lightning, bushfires and other severe weather systems that approach your service territory.

Advanced and actionable analytics allow you to act decisively and improve your planning and outage response strategy.

Customise your weather data

Over 30 customisable and easily visualised parameters are offered on your Energyzone interface. We tailor directly to your operational requirements and offer 24 hour meteorological and IT support for any complex conditions that arise. Maximised efficiency ensures your operation adheres to regulatory statutes.

We are there for you: rain, hail or shine.

High Precision Forecasts

Armed with OpticastTM, the most precise solution for nowcasting and forecasting data at down to 5-min granularity out to 15 days, you can mitigate operational and safety risk.

Storm Impact Analytics

Advanced and actionable analytics, using a sophisticated, machine learning approach, provide quantitative predictions that support a more prepared response.

Expert Advice and Support

Powerful forecast modules are coupled with briefings from our team of expert energy meteorologists, allowing you to understand the risk in the forecasts.

We don’t do status quo

We thrive on challenge, next-generation science and customised service and are dedicated to helping you stay ahead of the game.

Opticast is DTN APAC’s cloud-based forecasting solution that can deliver precise, hyper-local weather data to your business.

Independently verified to significantly outperform other industry models, Opticast gives you a strategic advantage when facing weather impacts. Opticast intelligently adapts to the local conditions of your site area ensuring the most accurate data for your network.

With our advanced alerting mechanism for lightning – the Total Lightning Network – and severe weather events including flooding and bushfires, you will have the best lead time possible to assess and respond. Our team provide analytical support, 24/7, and pave the way for quick and effective critical decision making.

We work to bring you full situational awareness so you can mitigate risk and maximise profits.

The brightest minds to help light the way.

Latest news

Satisfy your weather obsession with these news headlines from around the nation, and the world.

Overlapping south swells impact NSW ports

A series of swells generated from powerful storms south of Australia are impacting coastal NSW ports on Thursday and Friday. Large waves peak on Thursday morning A large southerly swell moved into coastal NSW overnight into Thursday morning. Significant wave heights off Sydney’s coast can be seen rapidly increasing late on Wednesday and early on […]

Darwin region facing extreme fire danger just days after season’s first rain

Hot and windy weather are bringing extreme fire danger near Darwin on Wednesday, just days after the city saw its first rain in four months. Prior to last weekend, Darwin had not seen any rain since May. This 115 day dry spell came to an end when rain started pouring into the gauge on Sunday […]

Super Typhoon Ragasa disrupting aviation, shipping and local industries across the Philippines and South China Sea

Japan’s Himawari-9 satellite has captured striking images of Super Typhoon Ragasa – known locally as Nando in the Philippines – bearing down on the Babuyan Islands on Monday and causing massive disruptions to industries across the region. Typhoon Ragasa underwent rapid intensification late last week and became the first super typhoon so far this season […]

Perth sets rainfall streak not seen in 18 years as water storage levels fall

For four months in a row, Perth has exceeded its average monthly rainfall – the first time this has happened in the traditionally wet winter and spring period since 2007. Perth reached its September average of 79.3mm during light showers on Tuesday and Wednesday. Another 13.2mm of rain then fell in the 24 hours to […]