Weather Sensitivity of Electricity Supply and Data Services of the German Met Office

Rothstein, Benno; Halbig, Guido

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“…Domijan et al(2003) found a significant correlation between power interruptions and weather parameters such as rain, wind, and temperature. Rothstein and Halbig(2010) indicated that many atmospheric and hydrological factors can affect electricity transmission, and Cambini et al(2014) further demonstrated that the heterogeneity associated with contextual variables had significant effects on efficiency. However, it is argued that utilities often adapt their operating and investment practices to adverse environmental conditions, and hence the measured environmental effects may not be significant.…”

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Does environmental heterogeneity affect the productive efficiency of grid utilities in China?

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China's electricity industry has experienced a reform whereby the generation sector is being opened up to competition but the transmission and distribution sectors are still regulated. Efficiency and benchmarking analyses are widely used for improving the performance of regulated segments, and the impact on efficiency of observable environmental factors, together with unobservable characteristics, has gained increasing attention in recent years. This study uses alternative stochastic frontier models combined with input distance functions to study the productive efficiency of 29 grid firms of China over the period 1993-2014 and investigates the effect of observed environmental factors and unobserved heterogeneity. The results indicate that efficiency is sensitive to model specification and illustrates the presence of observed and unobserved heterogeneity. The number of customers, power delivered and network length are demonstrated to have positive impacts on the utilities' efficiency while adverse environmental conditions harm the operation of grid utilities, but policy regulations may offset the negative impact. Finally, we suggest that there is room for efficiency improvement in the distribution grid, which could be encouraged by incentive regulation, even taking due account of environmental heterogeneity. Cambridge Working Papers in Economics Faculty of Economics www.eprg.group.cam.ac.uk Does environmental heterogeneity affect the productive efficiency of grid utilities in China? EPRG Working Paper 1820

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“…Moreover, both failures rates and the probability of overlapping failures tend to increase sharply during periods of extremely adverse weather conditions. Rothstein and Halbig (2010) find that many atmospheric and hydrological parameters not only affect electricity generation and consumption, but also electricity transportation. Indeed, overhead lines are affected by several atmospheric influences, such as lightning, wind, additional weight (e.g.…”

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Efficiency and environmental factors in the US electricity transmission industry

Llorca¹,

Orea²,

Pollitt³

2016

Energy Economics

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“…From the technical perspective, it is the electricity supply that is particularly sensitive to the climate. Both the generation and the distribution of electricity are affected by a whole range of different climate parameters (Rothstein and Halbig ). Because of the geographic situation of the MPR (flat coastal area with several industrial harbors), the electricity generation is dominated by thermal power plants and wind farms located close to the sea.…”

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Climate Change and Structural Vulnerability of a Metropolitan Energy System

Gößling‐Reisemann¹,

Wachsmuth²,

Stührmann³

et al. 2013

J of Industrial Ecology

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SummaryIn this article, we present methodology and results of a vulnerability assessment of the energy system of the metropolitan region Bremen-Oldenburg in Northwest Germany. This work is part of the regional climate adaptation project "nordwest2050" aiming at innovative solutions toward a climate-proof and resilient region. Methodologically, we extended the established vulnerability assessment based on climate change impacts by a structural analysis, highlighting general weaknesses of the metropolitan energy system. Our findings indicate that the structural vulnerabilities of the energy system around Bremen-Oldenburg pose a greater threat to maintaining the system's services than climate change itself. Climatechange-based vulnerabilities, however, aggravate many of the structural vulnerabilities and therefore demand attention in their own right. The structural vulnerabilities mainly originate from political and regulatory uncertainties, turbulent market conditions, conflicts along the supply chains, and the current dynamics in the energy sector induced by increased climate mitigation efforts. One of our main conclusions is thus that the metropolitan energy system's capabilities to handle turbulence, perturbations, and surprises must be improved. This will also help in reducing the climate-change vulnerabilities, because such a system is better equipped when facing currently hard-to-predict changes in climate parameters. The results of the assessment described here will be used as the starting point to find options for innovations toward a climate-proof and resilient energy system for the region in the course of the remaining project.

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Weather Sensitivity of Electricity Supply and Data Services of the German Met Office

Cited by 8 publications

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Does environmental heterogeneity affect the productive efficiency of grid utilities in China?

Does environmental heterogeneity affect the productive efficiency of grid utilities in China?

Efficiency and environmental factors in the US electricity transmission industry

Climate Change and Structural Vulnerability of a Metropolitan Energy System

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