The risks of global heating to energy systems and energy security
As recent events have shown, global heating is increasing the risk to many sectors of society, from agriculture to the built environment, to transportation. The energy security of most energy systems, regardless of their size, is also at risk from the effects of global heating: The reliable supply o...
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ftunivgent:oai:archive.ugent.be:8720468 2023-06-11T04:11:59+02:00 The risks of global heating to energy systems and energy security Hughes, Larry de Jong, Moniek 2021 application/pdf https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8720468 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8720468 https://doi.org/10.3390/su131810308 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8720468/file/8720471 eng eng https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8720468 http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8720468 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su131810308 https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8720468/file/8720471 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess SUSTAINABILITY ISSN: 2071-1050 Earth and Environmental Sciences climate emergency climate change hydroelectricity glaciers drought sustainability energy risk assessment Canada journalArticle info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2021 ftunivgent https://doi.org/10.3390/su131810308 2023-04-19T22:10:11Z As recent events have shown, global heating is increasing the risk to many sectors of society, from agriculture to the built environment, to transportation. The energy security of most energy systems, regardless of their size, is also at risk from the effects of global heating: The reliable supply of power to end users can be threatened by extreme weather events affecting transformers and transmission and distribution networks. It can also be a threat to generators that are vulnerable to unpredictable supplies of water, such as thermal or hydroelectric generation facilities. In this paper, we use an energy security methodology to examine some of the possible climate risks to the supply of power from hydroelectricity produced by one of western Canada’s electricity suppliers. The work is of particular interest because it shows how the increasing number of heatwaves that are affecting parts of western Canada and the Pacific Northwest could affect electricity supply in some western Canadian provinces and northern U.S. states. Article in Journal/Newspaper glacier* Ghent University Academic Bibliography Canada Pacific Sustainability 13 18 10308 |
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As recent events have shown, global heating is increasing the risk to many sectors of society, from agriculture to the built environment, to transportation. The energy security of most energy systems, regardless of their size, is also at risk from the effects of global heating: The reliable supply of power to end users can be threatened by extreme weather events affecting transformers and transmission and distribution networks. It can also be a threat to generators that are vulnerable to unpredictable supplies of water, such as thermal or hydroelectric generation facilities. In this paper, we use an energy security methodology to examine some of the possible climate risks to the supply of power from hydroelectricity produced by one of western Canada’s electricity suppliers. The work is of particular interest because it shows how the increasing number of heatwaves that are affecting parts of western Canada and the Pacific Northwest could affect electricity supply in some western Canadian provinces and northern U.S. states. |
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