The Climateurope project is organising the webinar: 'Climate ser vices for energy: sharing knowledge through case studies'.
R enewable energy is central to the global effort to move to less carbon-inte nsive economies that support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goa ls (SDGs). However, the generation of renewable energy and its operational planning are strongly affected by weather and climate variability, which ca uses wide variations in both energy supply and demand. To better deal with climate variability, international efforts are directed to enhance the qual ity, quantity and application of climate services in support of decision-ma king by renewable energy producers.
The limited uptake of climate pre dictions by the renewable energy sector identifies the need for enhanced co mmunication of their usefulness. Case studies - events that users identify as relevant because they affected their businesses in the past - offer a su itable way to communicate and share knowledge with potential users. Case st udies can help showcase how climate information and knowledge would have be en useful if available at the moment of the event and also illustrate how t o translate probabilistic model outcomes into deterministic decision-making .
Some efforts to co-develop case studies for the energy sector are l ed by European H2020 projects such as S2S4E (Sub-seasonal to seasonal clima te predictions for energy), APPLICATE (Advancing polar predictions in the A rctic and beyond) and PRIMAVERA (High resolution climate change projections carried out with a new generation of climate models). Examples of how case studies are used to analyse past periods with unusual climate behaviour af fecting the energy market will be presented during this webinar, incl uding three different project perspectives and expertise.
< p>Moderator:
Isadora Christel Jiménez, Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Speakers:
Karla Hernández, Project Manage r at Nnergix (S2S4E project)
M arta Terrado, Science Communication Specialist at Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (APPLIC ATE project)
Dragana Bojovic, Social Scientist at Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center ( PRIMAVERA project)
Agenda:
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15:00-15:05 | Introduction to the webinar (I. Christel) |
15:05-15:15 | S2S4E project (K. Hernández ) |
15:15-15:20 | Questions |
15:20-15:30 | APPLICATE project (M. Terrado) |
15:30-15:35 | Questions |
PRIMAVERA project (D. Bojovic) | |
15:45-15:50 | Questions |
15 :50-16:00 | General discussion on climate services for energy - how useful is to share knowledge using case studies? |
Farewell (I. Christel) |