Assessing the potential impact of climate change on the UK's electricity network.

Last updated on 03 October 2014 12:17
We investigate how weather affects the UK’s electricity network, by examining past data of weather-related faults on the transmission and distribution networks. By formalising the current relationship between weather-related faults and weather, we use climate projections from a regional climate model (RCM) to quantitatively assess how the frequency of these...
Author(s): McColl LJ;Palin EJ;Thornton HE;Sexton DMH;Betts R;Mylne K
Organisation(s): Met Office Hadley Centre ;
2012
United Kingdom
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