Climate-Informed Energy Sector Adaptation Planning Web Application via Cal-Adapt
Eagle Rock Analytics, Inc.
Recipient
Sacramento, CA
Recipient Location
8th
Senate District
10th
Assembly District
$430,900
Amount Spent
Active
Project Status
Project Update
Development of the next version of Cal-Adapt is well underway. The project team has completed the initial versions of the Data Download tool, Zero-Carbon Resource Availability Visualization, Climate and Wildfire Projections Visualizations, and the Expandable Foundational API. These initial versions are being iteratively improved based on reviews and recommendations from potential users. From here, the team will be working to finalize and implement these developments for the Cal-Adapt web application.
The Issue
While awareness of the impacts of climate change on the energy sector is increasing, incorporating climate data into California's and investor-owned utilities' (IOU) regulation, planning, and investment practices has been limited. This is partly due to a lack of climate-informed technical capacity and technological barriers. New tools and visualizations are needed to provide climate data and associated data guidance to energy sector stakeholders.
Project Innovation
This project revises Cal-Adapt's web application to accommodate the massive increase in volume of climate-related data being produced in EPIC projects. It also produces new climate visualizations and tools for using and accessing this data. Revisions and products are being closely informed by stakeholder needs to support California's Fifth Climate Change Assessment and IOU climate vulnerability planning.
Project Goals
Project Benefits
Allow and encourage energy sector stakeholders to use climate data to improve energy system planning, resulting in improved reliability and resilience and lower ratepayer energy costs.
Reliability
This project provides data on climate extremes and compound events that impact electricity grid reliability, allowing stakeholders to effectively plan for these events.
Affordability
This project uses advanced computational and data architecture to provide access to a vast amount of climate data as well as scientifically rigorous data analyses and tools developed in the EPIC project "Cal-Adapt: Analytics Engine" (EPC-20-007). This gives stakeholders affordable access to high quality climate data products, allowing the energy sector to effectively and efficiently plan for a robust, affordable energy system for California ratepayer
Key Project Members
Mark Koenig
Owen Doherty
Subrecipients
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of the Berkeley campus
Naomi Goldenson
