Power Grid Resilience Under Climate Change
The frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events (e.g., hurricanes, wildfires, and floods) has been significantly increasing. These events have severely impacted power systems ranging from long outage times to economic losses to major equipment (e.g., substations, transmission lines, and power plants) destructions. This calls for assessing the impact of extreme weather events on Bulk Electric System, utilities and distribution systems to improve grid resilience against such events. This panel addresses the impacts of climate change on power grid resilience.
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The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Face of the Changing Global Climate
To meet the demand for the resources needed to sustain this population increase, it is estimated that food production will have to increase by 60%, energy consumption by 80% and water needs by 55% worldwide.
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