ICEM 2023 CONFERENCE SESSIONS

1. Energy Planning & Financing

• Renewable resource site assessment (incl. on and off-shore wind, solar, hydro, tidal, ocean wave/currents/osmotic/thermal)
• Resource assessment of large wind farm clusters and energy islands
• Energy system adequacy
• Energy storage
• Bioenergy and Biofuels: meteorological issues

2. Energy Operations & Maintenance

• Short-range to medium-range weather/power forecasting (incl. probabilistic approaches and machine learning)
• Meteorological data and tools for grid integration (incl. demand modelling and management, energy efficient building design, energy storage solutions, smart grid technologies), including data visualisation and IT applications
• Meteorological data and tools for energy transmission and distribution (e.g. ice accretion on power lines)
• Operation and maintenance of large offshore wind, including floating wind energy
• Extreme weather events and their impacts on the energy industry (catastrophic risk)

3. Energy Resource Management

• Sub-seasonal, decadal climate/power forecasting (including probabilistic approaches and machine learning)
• Forecast bias adjustment, multi-model combinations, skill assessment
• Financial risk management for energy applications (insurance, trading, etc)

4. Energy Systems Risk Assessment & Investment

• Multi-decadal projections (including probabilistic approaches and machine learning)
• Projection assessment, bias adjustment, model selection
• Climate change impacts on energy systems, incl. resources, investments, demand and production
• Climate change risk for energy infrastructure

5. Climate & Energy Modelling

• Databases of climate data and energy parameters for energy systems analysis
• Definition and assessment of climate stress events for energy
• Climate-based energy conversion models
• Climate and energy scenario modelling

6. Environmental Impacts of Energy Systems

• Energy systems impacts on weather, climate and surrounding physical environments (e.g. effects on large scale climate, including air quality, energy islands)
• Micrometeorology effects on power systems (e.g. on wind turbines, solar panels, power lines)
• Environmental and social impacts of energy system planning and developments (e.g. turbine noise, PV panel flickering)

7. Weather and Climate Services for Energy

• Frameworks for the provision of weather and climate services for energy (e.g. Copernicus Thematic Hub on Energy)
• Building blocks, case studies, lessons learned and challenges in weather and climate services for energy
• Collaborative approaches: Co-design, co-development and co-production of climate services, including delivery and visualisation tools
• Stakeholder uptake and interaction approaches
• The socio-economic value of weather and climate services
• Business models for sustainable weather and climate services

8. Energy Policy, Programmes and Cross-sectoral Issues

• Global perspectives: Green deal, Net Zero, Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy), the Paris Agreement, …
• Major national/international projects/network in energy and meteorology, including creating new, collaborations across organisations and sectors
• Energy and climate policy (e.g. security issues, integrated assessment modelling, increase of renewables into the grid)
• Ensuring an integrated meteorology and energy for rapidly increasing energy demand in emerging economies
• The Climate–Energy–Water–Food nexus
• Meteorological data and tools for energy use in transport (e.g. aviation)

9. Education/Training Programmes in Energy and Meteorology

• Capacity building activities (e.g. Masters, Summer Schools, …)
• Outreach activities for schools
• Training for end-users in visual/interactive products of climate and energy services
• Effective communication of meteorology for the energy industry