Weather and Climate Services for Energy

• Frameworks for the provision of weather and climate services for energy

• Building blocks, case studies, lessons learned and challenges in weather and climate services for energy

• Stakeholder uptake and interaction approaches

Energy resource assessment

• Renewable resource assessment (incl. on- and off-shore wind, solar, hydro, ocean wave, tidal, ocean currents, ocean osmotic, ocean thermal)

• Bioenergy and Biofuels: meteorological issues

Forecasting for power-system applications

• Short-range to medium-range weather/power forecasting (incl. probabilistic approaches)

• Sub-seasonal to decadal climate/power forecasting (including probabilistic approaches)

• Long-range multi-decadal climate/power forecasting (incl. probabilistic approaches)

Environmental impacts of energy systems

• Energy systems impacts on weather, climate and surrounding physical environments (e.g. effects on large scale climate, including air quality)

• Micrometeorology effects on power systems (e.g. on wind turbines, solar panels, power lines)

• Environmental and social impacts of energy system planning and developments (e.g. turbine noise, PV panel flickering)

Weather and climate risk management

• Financial weather risk management for energy applications (insurance, trading, etc)

• Extreme weather events and their impacts on the energy industry (catastrophic risk)

• Climate change impacts on energy systems, incl. resources, investments, demand and production

Grid integration, storage, and smart grids

• Meteorological data and tools for grid integration (incl. demand modelling and management, energy efficient building design, energy storage solutions, smart grid technologies)

• Meteorological and power monitoring to enhance electricity management (e.g. urban networks), including data visualization and IT applications

• Meteorological data and tools for energy transmission and distribution (e.g. ice accretion on power lines)

Energy policy, programmes, education, and cross-sectoral issues.

• Major national/international projects/network in energy and meteorology

• Education/training programmes in energy and meteorology (e.g. planning new masters courses, outreach activities for schools/end user training)

• Education/training programmes in energy and meteorology (e.g. planning new masters courses, outreach activities for schools/end user training)

• The Climate–Energy–Water–Food nexus

• Meteorological data and tools for energy use in transport (e.g. aviation)

• Energy and climate policy (e.g. security issues, integrated assessment modelling)