Dew point may predict future energy demands

Published September 27, 2018 This content is archived.

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An article on Futurity reports on research by Sanyati Mukherjee, assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, that suggests the power industry is underestimating how climate change could affect the long-term demand for electricity in the U.S.

"Existing energy demand models haven't kept pace with our increasing knowledge of how the climate is changing," she said. "This is troublesome because it could lead to supply inadequacy risks that cause more power outages, which can affect everything from national security and the digital economy to public health and the environment."

Read the article here.