Heat ahead: a note for the grid control room
A control room note on days of extreme heat ahead.
What it does
Every morning: the heat forecast for your service area, only on days of 43 degrees or more, with a note by xMap AI for the control room, emailed and posted to the team channel.
In one sentence: Every day at 05:30, in Phoenix, get the 5-day weather forecast, keep those where max temperature ≥ 43, write a summary of each with xMap AI, then email the list to you and send message to a channel in Slack.
Why it is useful
Heat drives peak load. A short note a few days ahead gives the control room time to arrange crews, reserves and customer messages.
Who it is for
Energy, EV & utilities. Fuel retailers, EV charging networks, solar companies and utilities planning sites and serving customers. Every use case for energy & ev
Best use cases
- An electricity utility
- A district cooling company
- A grid operator
What each run gives you
- An email
- A Slack post
The time it saves
Every day at 05:30. Doing the same work by hand takes about 15 minutes each time; it runs about 30 times a month, so it saves about 8 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- Every morningTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- Service areaWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Heat in the service areaxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- 43 degrees or moreLogic · FilterKeeps only the items that match a rule.
- Write the control room notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
- Post it to the control roomApp · SlackChannel-based messaging platform
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- Enrich a list once: A CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
- Weather forecast: Up to 16 days for each place or city.
- Score, rank and label with xMap LLM: A score and a reason for every result, in your words.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- Lead scoring: Ranking prospects by how likely they are to buy.
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- Installer partners, vetted, with a follow-up: Top-rated electricians and solar installers, vetted from their ratings, with a reminder to follow up.
- Big roofs for commercial solar, with who decides: Big commercial roofs for solar, with a satellite picture and who decides.
- Fleets to switch to electric, with who to ask: Fleets to switch to electric, sized, with the person who runs them, in HubSpot.
- Charging sites drivers rate lowest: Which of your charging sites drivers rate lowest, every week.