EPRI Climate Resilience Analysis: Preparing Energy Systems For a Low-Carbon Transition and Climate Change

Changing climate, including the potential for more frequent and/or intense weather and a growing dependence on electricity through the clean energy transition, makes ensuring power sector climate resilience and adaptation a societal imperative. Climate and weather extremes present a potentially significant and escalating risk within the electric power and energy systems because of their broad and compounding effects on power generation, transmission systems, distribution networks, and customer usage. Utilities often face these evolving challenges with limited climate analysis resources and varying levels of scientific expertise needed to identify vulnerabilities, assess adaptation options, and develop comprehensive plans for asset and system resilience. As the leader in energy industry research, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) brings together in-house climate, engineering, operations, and planning experts to assist utilities with proactively assessing climate-related risk.

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