Utility Week Live explores… smart utilities and sharing data - Utility WeekThis winter saw the warmest February in England and Wales since rec...
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This winter saw the warmest February in England and Wales since records began in 1884, according to the Met Office.
The south of England also had its wettest February, with much of the region experiencing more than twice the average rainfall. These records provided yet more evidence that the frequency of some types of extreme weather – especially warm temperature extremes and heavy rainfall – is increasing.
Part of the challenge of climate change for utilities is not just decarbonisation; it’s also hardening infrastructure to cope with an increase in warmer, wetter winters and hotter, drier summers. And that’s where projects like NIMBUS – which aims to ensure networks are resilient to extreme weather – come in.
NIMBUS (the acronym stands for Network Innovation and Meteorology to Build for Sustainability) will give us the capability to use high resolution climate data to accurately predict the impact of climate change on assets over their lifetime. This should help to extend asset lifespan and cut replacement costs – and ultimately costs to consumers.
The project is backed by industry players including SSEN Transmission and tech giant IBM, but is also being facilitated by Icebreaker One, the not-for-profit organisation which is helping utilities (among others) share data to meet the challenges of the energy transition. In fact, open data, says Icebreaker One, is a key enabler of reaching net zero.
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