Cal-Adapt: Analytics Engine - Scaling up to Enhance Digital Platform, Accelerate Production of Data Products, & Expand User Base
Eagle Rock Analytics, Inc.
Recipient
Sacramento, CA
Recipient Location
8th
Senate District
10th
Assembly District
Active
Project Status
Project Update
The Cal-Adapt Analytics Engine team continues to engage with energy-sector stakeholders, data providers, and state agencies to develop analytics, provide access to best available climate data products, and offer guidance in support of cost-effective, reliable, and resilient energy in California.
The team launched a refactored data access method allowing for additional subsetting of data, an average of 3-4x faster access speeds, and improved documentation. In the fall of 2025, a set of precalculated climate profiles was launched and presented to a working group providing typical meteorological years, and other potentially useful climate products across the state for easy use.
These products and efforts were informed by regular working groups (3x a year) to engage with the community to understand their needs and share back the improvements and work done since the last meeting. In parallel, monthly meetings occur with the investor-owned utilities (IOUs) in California to facilitate communication and collaboration between entities while providing the best possible climate science to support energy sector needs in the state.
The team hosted a first Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) meeting in January 2026, sharing how initial development of the Cal-Adapt Analytics Engine (under grant EPC-20-007) will be leveraged to accelerate development of analytical capacity and electricity sector applications under this award. The team sought TAC member feedback on scaling up use and impact of the Analytics Engine.
The Issue
The Cal-Adapt: Analytics Engine addresses the following three major barriers to timely implementation of state priorities: (1) interdisciplinary knowledge gaps between climate and energy expertise, (2) insufficient access to massive quantities of climate data and (3) unavailability of open analytics designed to support integration of best available data into energy sector planning and regulatory processes. Through co-production, we will overcome the barriers between scientific innovation and practical implementation. In co-production, the end users (i.e. stakeholders), programmers, and scientists work together to identify and prioritize new feature development.
Project Innovation
Building off EPC-20-007 and continuing to engage energy-sector stakeholders, the project team is expanding its foundational code and building more robust, thorough analytical resources to support energy sector resilience, reliability, and resilience.
Specific innovations include:
* Providing continued support for CPUC’s Adaptation Rulemaking and for IOU efforts (e.g., RAMP, CAVA) in the form of open data, analytics, and guidance.
* Advancing new guidance and functions of the Cal Adapt Analytic Engine.
* Building capacity of key energy sector stakeholders (investor-owned utilities, state agencies, consultants, researchers, and more), through co-production, which involves working collaboratively to identify needs, scope solutions, and implement strategies.
* Partnering with Amazon through compute credits and usage of the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative to allow for free-to-users access to the data and processing power to core users.
* Establishing clear and scientifically vetted guidance for usage of climate data in decision making created through a co-production process including policy makers, scientists, and engineers.
Project Goals
Project Benefits
This project builds on the Cal-Adapt Analytics Engine, which has already delivered clear ratepayer benefits in the form of providing cutting edge data analytics and scientific expertise to inform state regulatory and planning proceedings as well as electricity utilities' adaptation efforts.
Consumer Appeal
Consumer appeal -
Lower costs - The Analytics Engine provides tools that help IOUs and planners identify grid vulnerabilities and prioritize investments that lower repair and recovery expenses.
Economic Development
Greater reliability - The Analytics Engine tools help IOUs and planners assess risks from climate related events to energy infrastructure which allows them to design for and prevent outages, increasing reliability to the grid.
Key Project Members
Owen Doherty
Subrecipients
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sowing Change Strategies LLC
Match Partners
Amazon Web Services
