Our Mission
The Team Behind PowerOutage.com
Real people doing the work. Below is the full team building the data, tools, and platform that thousands of linemen, utilities, emergency managers, journalists, consumers and businesses rely on.
Matt Hope
Chief Executive Officer
I feel extremely fortunate to spend my time and energy on solving problems with real world, life saving, impact. I view running PowerOutage.com as both an honor and a major responsibility, as we work to bring accurate data and actionable insights to those responding during major outage events.
Alex Zdanov
Chief Technology Officer
Access to electricity is a modern right and any moment when it's unavailable is a century of regression. It's our duty as a society to reduce the impact outages have on any of our fellow citizens.
Jason (Chachi) Robinson
Data Integration Engineer
I started PowerOutage.us as side project to learn and create a compressive dataset of outage information, which quickly grew faster then I could have imagined, and I love all the interesting ways that the data is useful to different people.
Doug Boccia
Chief Revenue Officer
The ability to connect power outage data and insights to real world solutions for businesses and consumers allows everyone to live a more productive and safe life.
Jay Shafer
Chief Innovation Officer
I've spent my career studying how extreme weather impacts communities and critical infrastructure. At PowerOutage.com, I help bridge the gap between complex infrastructure risks and real-world decision making by transforming power outage data into actionable insights that help protect lives, property, and essential services
Tobias Davis
Principal Engineer
I've always loved making software that helps real people, and at PowerOutage.com I have the privilege of building tools that people rely on during emergencies.
King Manalo
Data Team Manager
I'm proud to be part of a team that does work with real impact. It's meaningful to know that the information we provide helps people and businesses during outages.
Dewansh Chaudhari
Backend Developer
I wanted to apply my engineering skills to solve problems with clear societal value. PowerOutage.com gave me the opportunity to build systems that deliver real public impact.
Martin Diaz
Full Stack Developer
I believe that building something that helps people when they're stressed and uncertain is one of the highest measures of good work. At PowerOutage.com, I get to do exactly that, and watching millions of people use it makes me proud.
John Mayes
Full Stack Developer
I desire to glorify my Creator in the service of my fellow man, and PowerOutage.com allows me to build tools designed to help others in their time of need.
Jarred Teodoro
Account Manager
Outages are one of those things people only think about when the lights are off and they're a little scared, and I like that my work at PowerOutage.com helps put steadier information into those moments, even if I'm never the one in the room.
Ashna Upadhyay
Data Engineer Intern
I always wanted my work to matter beyond a dashboard. At PowerOutage.com, it does. Every model I build, every pattern I surface, has the potential to help a utility respond faster or help a family know when to expect their power back.
Bijay Pakhrin
Front-end Designer
As part of the PowerOutage.com team, I turn complex data into simple, intuitive experiences that help people find the information they need when it matters most.
Ciara Joyce Sarangaya
Sales and Admin Assistant
I work at PowerOutage.com because it's rewarding to know that the work I do helps people navigate challenging situations with better information and support.
Ryan Carrigan
Investor and Advisor
As an investor and advisor, I can't think of a better team to take on the major challenge of improving data and visibility around power outages.
A Letter from Our CEO: Our Commitment to the Grid and the People Who Protect It
When we assumed management of PowerOutage.us in November 2024, we did not yet fully appreciate the role the platform plays across the industries and government organizations that depend on it. The website has become a source of truth for utilities, federal agencies, national emergency response groups, and state and local governments—and for the men and women responsible for restoring power. The more we understood its importance, the more we recognized the responsibility we had taken on.
Historically, PowerOutage.us has served as the definitive situational awareness tool during outage events, providing the United States and the world with a real-time view of the grid. That role mattered then, and it matters now. But we have come to understand that it is only the beginning.
Today, outage response and restoration remain fragmented and inefficient. The people charged with responding often work from incomplete information, disconnected tools, and an unclear picture of conditions on the ground. Because of our reach across the organizations responsible for outage prevention and restoration, we are uniquely positioned to help address these challenges.
For that reason, we are evolving. PowerOutage.us is growing from a situational awareness platform into a broader provider of data and tools that deliver actionable insight to the people responding to outage events. Our goal is straightforward: to empower these teams to respond more efficiently and restore power more quickly, and in doing so, to measurably reduce the human impact of these events.
The information that follows describes who we are building for, what we are committing to, and how you can join us in this mission.
Matt Hope, CEO
Our Mission
Measurably reduce the negative impact of outage events for communities by empowering the people and organizations on the front lines of every outage with tools, data, and actionable insights.
How We Do It
We make our most important tools free for the people and organizations that need them and reinvest the revenue from our commercial products into expanding what we give away.
Our Goals
We are setting public goals for how many people on the front lines of every outage will have our data and tools in their hands.
The way we see it, the more people who are using what we build, the more impactful our solutions must be. We are measuring our success based on numbers that show impact.
| Power User Group | By End of 2027 |
|---|---|
| Utilities, Regulators & Grid Operators | 10,000+ |
| Linemen & Restoration Workforce | 35,000+ |
| Emergency Managers | 5,000+ |
| Media | 3,000+ |
| Corporations & Organizations | tens of thousands |
Who We Serve
A brief overview of how we empower each of the primary user groups our work is built around.
Linemen & Restoration Workforce
The most underserved audience in the power industry. We are going to change that.
Linemen work 16-hour days in dangerous conditions with almost no purpose-built technology. The lead-up to a major storm call-out is chaos. We are building free, purpose-built tools that cut through the noise, put real information in linemen’s hands when it matters, and, eventually, make it easier for crews who trust each other to travel and work together, which in turn creates a safe work environment with the power to actually save lives.
Utilities (& Supporting Organizations)
Every utility we monitor, in one place, at no cost. Built for the people running operations, planning, and emergency response.
Electric utilities have relied on PowerOutage.com for situational awareness during major events for over a decade. We have built a no-cost, significantly enhanced version of the website designed for utility operators, planners, and emergency response staff. A short overview of the platform and how to access it is here.
Emergency Managers
Outages do not stop at jurisdictional lines. Neither does our data.
Emergency managers coordinate response across multiple utilities, jurisdictions, and incident types at the same time. Our enhanced platform delivers real-time visibility across the entire footprint we monitor, threshold-based alerts for any jurisdiction, and historical event data for after-action reports and pre-season planning. Our data is also integrated into the platforms emergency managers already use, such as WebEOC, and we are trusted by leading emergency response organizations across federal and state government. A short overview of the platform and how to access it is here.
Regulators
Regulators deserve the same independent view of the grid that everyone else relies on.
Evaluating utility performance, approving rate cases, and protecting the public interest are all far more effective when everyone is working from a common, independent reference point. Regulators can access the same enhanced platform that utilities and emergency managers use, with comparative analytics for benchmarking and historical data they can cite in proceedings. We also publish independent storm-by-storm research, like our Winter Storm Fern white paper and our Winter Storm Iona white paper.
Media
Fast, credible, embeddable outage data for newsrooms. Free.
National and local media already rely on the public version of PowerOutage.com during major events. We are building something significantly better for the press: real-time and historical outage data you can cite on air and include in broadcast, online, and in print, embeddable maps you can drop directly into your sites at no cost, and downloadable white papers and storm-by-storm research you can quote and reference. We are an independent source that holds up under scrutiny and does not depend on a utility press line being available on deadline.
Grid Operators
Cross-utility outage visibility across your entire footprint, free, with the historical depth you need for planning and post-event analysis.
Grid operators need a view of outages that no single utility can provide. We deliver real-time visibility across every utility we monitor within your region, threshold-based alerts, and the historical data required for transmission planning, reliability analysis, and reporting.
Corporations
Power outages are not just a utility problem. They are an operations problem for every business that serves a community.
Grocery stores, telecom networks, retailers, restaurants, hospitals, logistics operators, and energy companies all use PowerOutage.com data to protect their operations and serve their customers through and after major events. Like utilities and emergency managers, corporations have access to the no-cost, enhanced version of PowerOutage.com. We also provide solutions for organizations that need to integrate our outage data directly into their own systems.
Consumers
Historically, electric consumers had the least information of all our user groups.
We aim to change that. In addition to the most comprehensive nationwide power outage data view, we are leveraging our most granular data to provide location-based awareness to consumers. Consumers deserve to be empowered with both data and solutions, and that is the journey we have embarked on. You can view our new consumer facing data views here.
The Company We’re Building
Power outages will keep growing more frequent and more severe. Aging infrastructure, more extreme weather, increasing electrification, and rising demand all point in the same direction. The communities affected by outages deserve better than fragmented information, scattered tools, and unclear standardization.
PowerOutage.com exists to make sure every person and organization with a role to play in an outage, including the linemen, the utilities, the emergency managers, the regulators, the media, the grid operators, the businesses, and the public, has the same clear, independent, real-time picture, and the tools to act on it.
That is the company we are building. We hope you will join us.
Get in Touch
Whether you are a utility looking for access, an emergency manager who wants to see the platform, a journalist working on a story, or an organization that wants to integrate our data, reach out.