MainDB: ClimaGrid - Brazil
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ClimaGrid - Brazil
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South America
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Adaptation planning and practices; Impact assessment; Knowledge management; Monitoring and evaluation/M&E; Science and research; Technology support; Vulnerability assessment
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Disaster risk reduction; Energy
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Brazil
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Description:
The ClimaGrid is an innovative tool in deployment in Smart Grids in Brazil, inserting the new concept of grid: enables the convergence of space-time and also information about climate and environmental variables, providing the "3D" vision for the smart grid. ClimaGrid is an automation platform able to anticipate climate variations that can potentially affect power grids, supporting pro-active solutions and avoiding and minimizing the interruption of the energy transmission and distribution. ClimaGrid was born and developed through a partnership between EDP - Energias do Brasil and INPE - National Institute of Space Research. Sooner, EDP participated in the construction of BrasilDAT. The system created a net of sensors to detect cloud to ground and intra-cloud flashes. This is an important tool for generation of information. This information and historical data registered by INPE enabled the creation of a mathematic model able to monitor climate variables that influences power grids. INPE developed the meteorological model WRF - Weather Resource Forecast with spatial resolution of 5km for predictions of 24hours of variables as: precipitation, speed and wind direction, temperature, humidity and atmospheric pressure. This information are available daily and automatically, through information M2M (Machine to Machine). The WRF produces a variable called PLR (Probability Lightning region) that is a global innovation launched by INPE/EDP in December of 2012. The model was integrated with the pioneer Smart Grid systems developed by EDP. New investments are planned to increase data collection, and to improve continuously the accuracy of ClimaGrid outputs.
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Among several ClimaGrid known benefits and outputs. The most important to EDP is mapping the risks and opportunities. The historical Data allows the planning of short, medium and long term company´s assets. The real time and prediction data helped to improve the emergency team action during the extreme events. The most important opportunities are in energy supply and energy consumers, because through the data we can find opportunities of micro-generation and climate variables influence industrial and residential consumption.
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For further information go to:
https://www.edp.com/en/innovation/climagrid
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The indicators of achievement are DEC (Equivalent of Continuity Duration) that indicates how many hours, in average, the consumer stay off energy for year and FEC (Equivalent of Continuity Frequency) that indicates an average of how often the energy fails per consumer.
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EDP - Energias do Brasil S.A.
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Through the analysis of historical data and the identification of relevant meteorological variables, ClimaGrid aims to reduce climate change risks for society, improve the services provided and enhance energy efficiency.
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Academics and scientists; Private sector
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Created at 21/04/2016 11:46 by Roberto Felix
Last modified at 04/05/2022 04:10 by Nicholas Hamp-Adams
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