dScience Lunch Seminar: Benth & Zeyringer

There is wide-spread consensus on the urgency to achieve the headline goal of the Paris Agreement of keeping global warming to well below 2?C and in so doing avoid dangerous climate change. This requires a rapid decarbonisation of the energy system; which can be achieved by electrified systems with high shares of variable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar energy. In such systems, weather and climate have a crucial influence on energy supply and demand, from solar and wind generation to heating and cooling demands. Furthermore, anthropogenic climate change is expected to have complex impacts on future weather-dependent energy systems through changes in weather statistics (e.g. changes in mean properties, year-to-year variability, frequency and intensity of extreme events).