[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Data Science Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our October (2023) Data Science Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Tuesday, October 17 at 1:00 PM CT, we’ll be joined by Erik Smith, Climate Resilience Analyst, Energy Systems and Climate Analysis Group at EPRI who will be leading a discussion around, “Leveraging Weather and Climate Data for Power System Applications.” As this discussion will be interactive, we encourage you to come prepared with questions and your inight.

Learn more about this session and our speaker below!

Session Description:

Energy companies, regulators, policymakers, and other industry stakeholders require science-based insights about the future power system and the climate conditions under which it will operate to identify optimal adaptation and resilience investments. To meet this need, EPRI is leading two major initiatives, the Climate READi Initiative and the Load Forecasting Initiative. Through the Climate READi initiative, EPRI is leveraging its collaborative model to convene the global thought leaders and scientific researchers necessary to build an informed and consistent approach to facilitate analysis and application of climate data, while the Load Forecasting Initiative is focused on improving short-term load forecasts as well as developing a framework for long-term load forecasts. This talk will provide an overview of ongoing work in these initiatives to assess currently available climate data and provide guidance for using this data in power system applications. It will also discuss data gaps (i.e., lack of hourly climate projections) and current methods being implemented to fill those gaps. Lastly, this talk will touch on ongoing work to leverage weather and climate data for improved operational and long-term load forecasting.

Speaker: Erik Smith, Climate Resilience Analyst, Energy Systems and Climate Analysis Group (EPRI)

Erik Smith is a Climate Resilience Analyst in the Energy Systems and Climate Analysis Group at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). At EPRI, Dr. Smith leads research on climate impacts and resiliency of the electric power sector. His research focuses on how climate change will alter long-term averages and extreme weather events and the impact these changes could have on resource adequacy, system reliability, long-term load forecasting, among other things.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). I’ve noticed these invites can sometimes be flagged as spam, so please check your junk folders if you’re not seeing right away. For your convenience I have also attached the placeholder to this message as an easy download. If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Tuesday, October 17 at 1:00 PM CT, or are having trouble downloading the placeholder from this message, please reach back out to me so I can be sure you are forwarded the invite an alternate way.

Thanks and I look forward to connecting next week!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————
——————————————-
Original Message:
Sent: 10-02-2023 12:02
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming October (2023) Community Conversation

Hello Data Science Community Members,

 

I hope all is well! With October just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our October (2023) Data Science Community Conversation. On Tuesday, October 17 at 1:00 PM CT we’ll be joined by Erik Smith, Climate Resilience Analyst, Energy Systems and Climate Analysis Group at EPRI who will be leading a discussion around, “Data Science and Climate Change” (Official Title TBD).

  

I’ll be providing more information on this session, including our Microsoft Teams credentials, one week prior to our meeting but you can always learn more about each of our upcoming Community Conversations on our Events Page HERE.

 

If you have any questions in the meantime please reach out to me at kpraet@utilityanalytics.com.

 

Thanks!

——————————
Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
——————————