Climate Adaptation and Clean Energy Intersections Catalyzer

Adaptation and managed migration are gaining significance in response to escalating impacts of climate change. With rising sea levels, extreme weather events, and environmental degradation, communities and governments are recognizing the need to implement adaptation and mitigation strategies that promote the principles of equity and sustainability. Protecting livelihoods and the environment, enhancing resilience, and ensuring energy security in the face of an evolving climate crisis is critically important. Effective climate adaptation strategies have significant implications for clean energy development. Strategies have implications for successfully siting renewable energy resources, meeting shifting and less predictable energy loads, and designing secure and resilient energy systems.

JISEA's Climate Adaptation and Clean Energy Intersections Catalyzeris seeking to build new research pathways to inform how we design and plan for a clean, secure, and resilient grid when there is uncertainty around energy demand due to human migration, and performance of clean energy technologies in the face of climate change. Through the Catalyzer, JISEA/NREL analysts will introduce concepts like biomimicry in renewable energy technology design, climate migration, and adaptive capacity and supply-chain security to existing energy analysis and modelling capabilities. The objective of this catalyzer is to integrate disparate research avenues to build a power system adaptation program to understand the solutions for energy security and resilience in an uncertain and changing climate.