Weather Matters for Energy - Troccoli, Alberto; Dubus, Laurent; Haupt, Sue Ellen; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
Part I: Why Should the Energy Industry be Concerned About Weather Patterns? -- A new era for Energy -- Vulnerability of Energy Systems in a Changing Climate -- Climatic Changes: Looking Back, Looking Forward -- Renewable Energy and Climate Change Mitigation - an Overview of the IPCC Special Report -- Part II: How is the Energy Industry Meteorology-proofing Itself? -- Managing Weather and Climate Risks: a View from the Energy Sector -- Improving Resilience Challenges and Linkages of the Energy Industry in a Changing Climate -- Combining Meteorological and Electrical Engineering Expertise to Solve Energy Management Problems -- Weather and Climate Impacts on Australia's National Electricity Market -- Bioenergy, Weather and Climate Change in Africa: Leading Issues and Policy Options -- Part III: What can Meteorology offer to the Energy Industry? -- Weather and climate information delivery within national and international frameworks -- Meteorology and the energy sector -- Earth observations in support of the Energy sector -- Emerging Meteorological Requirements to Support High Penetrations of Variable Renewable Energy Sources: Solar Energy -- Current status and challenges in wind energy assessment -- Wind Power Forecasting -- Regional Climate Modelling for the Energy Sector -- In Search of the Best Possible Weather Forecast for the Energy Industry -- Part IV: How is the Energy Industry applying State-of-the-Science Meteorology? -- A probabilistic view of weather, climate and the energy industry -- Weather & climate and the power sector: needs, recent developments and challenges -- Unlocking the potential of renewable energy with storage -- Improving NWP Forecasts for the Wind Energy Sector -- Overview On Irradiance And Photovoltaic Power Prediction -- Spatial and temporal variability in the UK wind resource: Scales, controlling factors and implications for wind power output -- Reducing the energy consumption of existing, residential buildings, for climate change and scarce resource scenarios in 2050 -- Energy & Meteorology: Partnership for the future -- Index.
Keywords: Climate change; Energy; Environmental management; Climate Change; Climate Change Management and Policy; Energy, general; Environmental Management