Power and Energy

Climate change affects the generation, delivery, and demand of energy. As the power and energy sector is increasingly relying on renewable sources, the relevance of climate variability and change also increases. The growing number and impact of extreme weather events entails that energy providers and policy makers have the climate information they need to make informed and sustainable choices such as planning of hydroelectric production and vulnerability of the transport and distribution network to climatic hazards. We support the power and energy sector by providing tailored information for hazard and risk assessments, and adaptation programming.

Our core services for the Power and Energy sector include:

• Weather monitoring and observation
• High-resolution gridded historical climate data sets
• Weather and climate estimation at ungauged sites
• Improvement of risk information Early Warning Systems
• Hydrometeorological forecasting and model development
• Statistical and dynamical downscaling of climate change scenarios data
• Tailored climate impact drivers data (e.g. climate hazard indices)
• High-resolution modelling of site-specific weather and climate extremes
• Climate impacts modelling, vulnerability, and risk assessments
• Hydrological and water availability modelling