To repair any damage, teams of technicians will be needed in the impact area. This is a cost-ineffective and time-ineffective repair method but is the only method. This repair method limits the recovery speed of impacted areas significantly. Our team plans to tackle this problem by creating a self-healing power grid, whose main goal is to reduce the recovery time.

This self-healing power grid can recover areas from outages by sensing power delivery and redirecting power through other channels. This method ensures a quick reconnection of power and may resolve short outages entirely. This eases the inevitable time loss that technicians experience while resolving the problem, which may have been caused by environmental and travel difficulties.

To establish this power grid, sensors which monitor power delivery will be placed along the power lines. These sensors, as previously mentioned, detect any discrepancies in the delivery of power to areas. Once a sensor detects a discrepancy, an alert will be reported back to power substations, where an automated system controlled by computers will decide the best course of action. This may include redirecting power to affected areas through other channels and alerting technicians on site.