Climate and Energy Systems: Foresight days to decades ahead
A 2-day online workshop
16th and 17th September 2021: 0600-1000 Denver, 1300-1700 London, 2200-0200 Sydney
NextGenEC workshops aim to bring together an international group of researchers working at the interface between climate science and energy applications. The goal is to stimulate an active and ongoing discussion around the use of both historic and future climate datasets in energy system analysis
Building on the success of last year’s workshop, the 2021 edition of the NextGenEC workshop addressed five key themes:
- Making the most of limited meteorological predictability for energy
- Climate uncertainty and power system planning
- Definition and assessment of weather stress events for energy
- Added value of subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting for energy
- Renewable energy and research into developing markets
A detailed description of these themes is available here.
The workshop attracted over 129 participants (from 250 registrations) from around the world, spanning a wide range of research interests from energy and climate science. The organising committee would once again like to extend our thanks to everyone who participated with invited talks, contributed online ‘posters’ and to the discussion groups.
Resources from the workshop are detailed below:
- Welcome and introduction (David Brayshaw, University of Reading)
- Plenary talk: Global and regional ensemble projections for risk assessment – The IPCC Interactive Atlas (Jose Manuel Gutierrez, Cantabria University)
- Plenary talk: Power system planning under a changing climate: recent advances and future directions (Michael Craig, Michigan University)
- Plenary talk: Using Weather Regimes in Energy Meteorology (Christian Grams, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
- Plenary talk: Multi-timescale challenges in sector-coupled energy systems (Marta Victoria, Aarhus University
- Breakout Group 1 notes: Predictability
- Breakout Group 2 notes: Climate uncertainty in planning
- Breakout Group 3 notes: Weather stress events
- Breakout Group 4 notes: S2S forecasting
- Breakout Group 5 notes: RE in developing markets
- List: Educational/background videos and resources introducing Energy Meteorology
About the workshop
Recent years have seen a growing appreciation of the risks posed by climate variability, change and uncertainty in power system operations and planning. There remain, however, many scientific and technical questions to be addressed in order to fully understand climate risk in power systems (e.g., open-access article here, list of links to background resources here).
The 2021 edition of NextGenEC focusses on the topic – “Climate and Energy Systems: Foresight days to decades ahead” – will focus discussion and presentations around 5 overlapping themes:
• Making the most of limited meteorological predictability for energy
• Climate uncertainty and power system planning
• Definition and assessment of weather stress events for energy
• Added value of subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting for energy
• Renewable energy and research into the developing markets
Participants were invited to present their own research and engage in working group discussions addressing these themes. Further detail regarding the scope of the 5 themes is available here.
Organising committee
David Brayshaw (Univ Reading, committee chair); Hannah Bloomfield (Univ Reading); Jethro Browell (Univ Strathclyde); Matteo de Felice (JRC); Paula Gonzalez (Univ Reading); Katharina Gruber (BOKU); Alex Kies (Univ Frankfurt); Julie Lundquist (Univ Colorado); Laurens Stoop (Utrecht University, TenneT, KNMI); Hazel Thornton (UK Met Office); Jan Wohland (ETH Zurich) and Marianne Zeyringer (Univ Oslo)