A Generic Process for Assessing Climate Change Impacts on the Electricity Supply Industry and Utilities

Completed

Renewable Energy Sources(Wind Energy)
Energy Efficiency(Residential and commercial)
Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electric power conversion)

Basic and strategic applied research

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)

Not Cross-cutting
Systems Analysis related to energy R&D

Prof S Watson
Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Loughborough University

Standard

EPSRC

01 August 2003

31 October 2006

39 months

£186,388

Civil eng. & built environment

East Midlands

Infrastructure and Environment -- Process Environment and Sustainability

Prof S Watson, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University

Project Contact, Renewable Energy Systems
Project Contact, Oscar Fabers and Partners
Project Contact, National Grid plc
Project Contact, E.ON E&P UK Ltd
Project Contact, Garrad Hassan and Partners Ltd
Project Contact, HR Wallingford
Project Contact, Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Project Contact, Building Research Establishment (BRE) Limited

This project will develop a generic process for assessing the impact of the UKCIP02 climate change scenarios on the performance of the electricity supply industry (ESI), the latter being representative of similar complex utilities such as the gas, telecommunications and water supply industries. The generic assessment process will provide the currently missing integrating framework that is essential if the many technical and business risks that climate change may impose on the ESI are to be properly managed. The new assessment process will be developed and evaluated by conducting an analysis of the ESI system, from generation through to customer, with a focus on wind power generation as an example of an important renewable energy source that is particularly susceptible to climate variables. The study will concentrate on two exemplar aspects, namely the impact of electricity consumption patterns and the impact on wind power generation

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