Webinar: Climate Variations, Fluctuations and Extremes impacts on future energy systems

21st of May 2021

10:30 – 13:00 Central European Time

IEA-ETSAP Seminar with ISIMIP – & CLIM2Power
Hosted by the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University

Climate change is impacting our environment and beginning to impact our lives with seasonal
regularity. This last winter we have seen climate fluctuations impacting on the Texas Power grid
security and stability. Previous summers we have experienced the impacts of the lack of cooling water
to regulate nuclear and thermal power plants in europe during summer seasonal heat waves.
This seminar explores the state of the art in energy system modelling to including future climate
variability, fluctuations and extreme impacts in infrastructure planning. This research incorporates
physical earth science understanding of future climate dynamics into engineering energy systems
models to understand the long term climate impacts in net zero energy system planning for the future.

Presentation 1
Making TIMES models respond to climate variability – experience from the Clim2power project
Presenters: Patrícia Fortesb, Edi Assoumou

Presentation 2
Investigating the Risk of Hurricane-Induced Cascading Failures in a Synthetic Power Grid for Texas
Presenter: Julian Stürmer

Presentation 3
What are the Impacts of Weather Fluctuations and Extremes on (Future) Energy Systems? – Research Within the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP)
Presenter: Christian Otto

Presentation 4
How to incorporate climate variability and fluctuations from ISIMIP data into TIMES models
Presenter: James Glynn

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