Energy critical infrastructures at risk from climate change: A state of the art review

Mikellidou, Cleo Varianou; Shakou, Louisa Marie; Boustras, Georgios; Dimopoulos, Christos

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2017.12.022

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“…Resilience is defined through four 'Rs': Robustness, redundancy, resourcefulness, and recovery [36,37]. For example, the resilience of a decentralized power production system differs considerably from a centralized one against factors, such as geopolitics [38][39][40], climate-change-induced extreme weather events [41][42][43], or digitalization-linked cybersecurity [44,45]. We include here a systematic resilience analysis of the national and city-level clean energy pathway scenarios.…”

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Analyzing National and Local Pathways to Carbon-Neutrality from Technology, Emissions, and Resilience Perspectives—Case of Finland

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The Paris Climate Accord calls for urgent CO2 reductions. Here we investigate low and zero carbon pathways based on clean electricity and sector coupling. Effects from different spatialities are considered through city and national cases (Helsinki and Finland). The methodology employs techno-economic energy system optimization, including resilience aspects. In the Finnish case, wind, nuclear, and biomass coupled to power-to-heat and other flexibility measures could provide a cost-effective carbon-neutral pathway (annual costs −18%), but nuclear and wind are, to some extent, exclusionary. A (near) carbon-neutral energy system seems possible even without nuclear (−94% CO2). Zero-carbon energy production benefits from a stronger link to the broader electricity market albeit flexibility measures. On the city level, wind would not easily replace local combined heat and power (CHP), but may increase electricity export. In the Helsinki case, a business-as-usual approach could halve emissions and annual costs, while in a comprehensive zero-emission approach, the operating costs (OPEX) could decrease by 87%. Generally, electrification of heat production could be effective to reduce CO2. Low or zero carbon solutions have a positive impact on resilience, but in the heating sector this is more problematic, e.g., power outage and adequacy of supply during peak demand will require more attention when planning future carbon-free energy systems.

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Analyzing National and Local Pathways to Carbon-Neutrality from Technology, Emissions, and Resilience Perspectives—Case of Finland

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“…Para [12], existen varios artículos técnicos que estudian sobre los riesgos que afectarían las infraestructuras críticas de energía en relación con el impacto del cambio climático y los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos, en contraste, sólo unos pocos artículos consideran la resiliencia e interdependencia con otros sistemas.…”

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Resiliencia de Sistemas Eléctricos de Potencia mediante la Conmutación de Líneas de Transmisión – Estado del arte

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Los sistemas eléctricos se ven amenazados por diversos factores que afectan la continuidad en el suministro de electricidad, a la economía y a las personas; los eventos extremos tanto derivados del cambio climático o de los desastres naturales, identificados como riesgos de baja probabilidad pero de alto impacto han causado grandes apagones a nivel mundial. La resiliencia es un aspecto que define la capacidad de los sistemas de energía para recuperarse de los disturbios sean de corta o larga duración. Se aborda la conmutación de líneas de transmisión para incrementar la resiliencia del sistema y reducir costos totales en el contexto del despacho económico. Se resalta los aspectos considerados en las publicaciones que abarcan la temática de la resiliencia en los sistemas eléctricos, la conmutación de las líneas de transmisión bajo escenarios de evaluación de contingencia N-1, y, la planificación de expansión de transmisión comprendiendo los planteamientos de distintos autores y sus conclusiones. En la literatura técnica revisada, se visualiza el alcance de sus resultados para direccionarlos para el estudio de la Restauración Óptima de la Operación de Sistemas Eléctricos de Potencia mediante la Conmutación de Líneas de Transmisión. Se determina que el punto de partida es el flujo óptimo de potencia DC (DCOPF), encontrándose la mejor solución y sobre todo la minimización de los costos totales de despacho.

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“…This requires the development of dedicated methodologies and tools, as well as guidance for operators and authorities on how to consider climate hazards in industrial risk assessments [77]. Also, it requires further understanding of how CC will impact the oil industry and how these impacts can affect other CIs [154][155][156]. It would be highly beneficial if scientists and engineers worked closely with industry and policy-makers in an interdisciplinary effort to effectively tackle the problem of Natech risk reduction.…”

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A Review of Climate Change Impacts to Oil Sector Critical Services and Suggested Recommendations for Industry Uptake

Katopodis

Sfetsos

2019

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Climate change already has far-reaching impacts on the oil industry, putting the operation, reliability, and growth of the sector at risk. Oil infrastructure has multi-decadal lifetime projections; thus, climate change and extreme weather events such as extreme temperatures, hurricanes, high winds, lightning strikes, storm surges, flooding, etc., pose an extra challenge to the oil supply chain, from upstream to downstream. In this paper, we review the climate change risk assessment frameworks, the impacts of climate change on oil infrastructure, and we identify gaps in the current knowledge, also suggesting future search directions on adapting the oil sector to climate change. The work overviews linkages between climate and oil industry design, operational, and service thresholds in a comprehensive hazard threshold matrix. Existing risk assessment methodologies that account for existing regulatory frameworks and interdependencies with other infrastructures are studied, leading to mitigation, adaptation, and sector resilience recommendations.

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Energy critical infrastructures at risk from climate change: A state of the art review

Cited by 79 publications

References 71 publications

Analyzing National and Local Pathways to Carbon-Neutrality from Technology, Emissions, and Resilience Perspectives—Case of Finland

Analyzing National and Local Pathways to Carbon-Neutrality from Technology, Emissions, and Resilience Perspectives—Case of Finland

Resiliencia de Sistemas Eléctricos de Potencia mediante la Conmutación de Líneas de Transmisión – Estado del arte

A Review of Climate Change Impacts to Oil Sector Critical Services and Suggested Recommendations for Industry Uptake

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