Climate simulation software platform Sunairio has entered a pilot program with Xcel Energy-Colorado to simulate the electric grid of Public Service Company of Colorado, an operating company subsidiary of Xcel Energy, as it adds wind and solar generation capacity.
The program aims to improve the accuracy and increase the granularity of weather data used in grid planning.
Grid planning studies have traditionally quantified weather and energy variability risks by using historical weather data as an analogue for future weather events, says the company, which can fail to capture potential extreme events or account for the effects of climate change.
The pilot program hopes to overcome these problems by providing high-resolution weather data that both extends into the past and applies the latest intelligence from global climate models when looking to the future.
To achieve these goals, Xcel Energy will start by validating Sunairio’s historical weather and renewable energy generation datasets against both known measurements and proprietary generation data. Then, Sunairio will employ its climate simulation engine to simulate probabilistic outcomes of future hourly weather. These simulations are set to incorporate climate trends consistent with the most current generation of physics-based global climate models.
Finally, Sunairio will model future Xcel Energy’s customer demand, wind and solar generation by applying energy models to the weather simulations.
“We’re thrilled to apply our advanced modeling platform to Xcel Energy’s utility portfolio and show how this technology can support grid reliability in Colorado, with many renewable energy sites, diverse geographies and complicated weather patterns,” says Rob Cirincione, CEO of Sunairio.
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Xcel Energy Tests Sunairio Platform in Grid Reliability Pilot Program
Not sure about this.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School might struggle to identify a bear. Could be.
This is the intelligence level of the American electorate today.
The Chinese ownership of American farmland is less than 0.00036, or 0.036%. To put this into perspective, if the entirety of U.S. farmland were reduced to one acre, the Chinese government and business interests would own less than 15 square feet, about half the size of a small broom closet.
Yet, true to form, this is a huge issue for the MAGA base.
This guy is quite effective in talking to uneducated, conservative Americans, most of whom have never traveled to, or even read anything about the happiest countries on Earth.
If I were going to make a statement about the relationship between social justice and despotism, I would at least consider the lives of the people in places that consider social justice to be something of importance, and compare/contrast this to the list of the countries that are perennially at the top of the World Happiness Rankings.
What makes the people in New Zealand, Iceland, Costa Rica, Northern Europe, etc., so happy? Why do these are these nations suffer exactly zero despotism?
I would be completely ashamed of myself if I were to forward a political theory that had precisely no basis in fact.
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