Aligning NASA Data Resources With the Needs of Electric Utilities
Abstract
To ensure a reliable and resilient energy supply, electric utilities and other energy management sector end users must adapt to environmental changes and risks. Energy resource management, infrastructure planning, and electricity generation, transmission and end use are impacted by extreme weather shifts and ongoing environmental change. Understanding weather and climate variability allows the energy sector to be more resilient in producing or distributing energy supplies. To support this need, primary and secondary research was performed to identify the data needs and gaps specific to electric utilities, including members of the U.S. Department of Energy's Partnership for Energy Sector Climate Resilience. Using an iterative capacity building approach, potentially relevant NASA data products and visualization tools were identified and down-selected for inclusion in an Esri ArcGIS StoryMap® that aims to provide actionable data to support electric utilities in increasing their resilience to changing conditions. Furthermore, use cases were developed and included in the StoryMap® and the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit to demonstrate the usability of NASA data to solve common challenges related to resilience and energy management, such as hydropower water resource management and wildfire potential. This talk will outline the approach, highlight components of the StoryMap®, and discuss key challenges in making data products more actionable, as well as share lessons learned in directly applying scientific research related to climate change impacts on energy resources to decision-making.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020AGUFMSY051..05L
- Keywords:
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- 6309 Decision making under uncertainty;
- POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES;
- 6334 Regional planning;
- POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES;
- 6339 System design;
- POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES;
- 6344 System operation and management;
- POLICY SCIENCES & PUBLIC ISSUES