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 and deployment of the new foundation for the Cal-Adapt web application (cal-adapt.org), known as the Cal-Adapt Data Explorer, has been completed. This included features responsive to user feedback, including initial versions of a Data Download tool, a Zero-Carbon Resources Availability Visualization, and Climate and Wildfire Projections Visualizations. Documentation and knowledge transfer materials have been prepared for the next team to manage the Cal-Adapt platform.
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
The new version of Cal-Adapt brings modern and expanded climate data to the public for their access and use. By providing the foundation of tools, website, and API, the results of this grant create a venue for future development and expansion of the Cal-Adapt enterprise. In concert with the Cal-Adapt: Analytics Engine, this new version of Cal-Adapt developed in this grant offers open access climate data that can used by utilities, governments, researchers and others to effectively create a more reliable, affordable, and environmentally sustainable energy system and to support adaptations to protect public health and well-being under a changing climate.
Reliability
This project provides data on climate extremes and compound events that impact electricity grid reliability, allowing stakeholders to more effectively plan for these events.
Affordability
This project uses advanced computational and data architecture to provide access to a vast amount of climate data and scientifically rigorous data analyses and tools developed in the EPIC project Cal-Adapt: Analytics Engine (EPC-20-007), reducing data development costs and leading to improved efficiency and reducing potentially costly risks through application of this data to electricity system planning.
Key Project Members
Mark Koenig
Owen Doherty
Subrecipients
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of the Berkeley campus
Naomi Goldenson
