Climate Action Programme lecture "Harnessing the elements for a sustainable future"

Date: Thursday 13 February 2025
Time: 12:45 - 13:45 (free vegan lunch from 12:15 if registered)
Location: TU Delft; TBD
Registration: is mandatory via this link

"Harnessing the elements for a sustainable future: Solar nowcasting and the dynamic Dutch North Sea"
By Angela Meyer and Louise Nuijens

Angela Meyer will show that mitigating climate change requires decarbonizing our energy generation which can be achieved through wide-spread harvesting of solar and wind energy. She will explain how accurate forecasts of solar radiation and wind are becoming increasingly important for balancing power supply and demand in the electricity grid as the share of volatile renewable energy is growing. Artificial intelligence and the latest generation of Earth-observing meteorological satellites can provide high-quality renewable energy forecasts to inform energy companies and grid operators. Her  talk will demonstrate the potential of artificial intelligence for accurate weather and renewable energy forecasts to shape the path toward a more sustainable and resilient energy system.

Angela Meyer has been an assistant professor of Energy Meteorology and Artificial Intelligence in the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Department of TU Delft since 2023. She has been a research group leader at Bern University of Applied Sciences since 2022. She obtained her PhD in Atmospheric Physics from ETH Zurich and gained industry experience as a data scientist at Hexagon AB and co-leader of an R&D program at Siemens Smart Infrastructure. Her research is supported by the European Commission, the Swiss Innovation Agency and National Science Foundation.

Louise Nuijens will show that the Netherlands is facing global challenges due to climate change that include not only sea level rise, but also unprecedented warm North Sea temperatures and changing rainfall patterns. She will explain that clouds, solar radiation and wind over the North Sea and coast are part of a dynamic interconnected system that shapes weather and regional climate. Understanding this coupled system is very important as we face our future climate and requires advanced models and extensive data collection. More accurate information of wind, rain, fog and sunshine over the North Sea, one of the busiest coastal seas in the world, is becoming urgent. The North Sea is facing escalating challenges from shipping regulations and marine protection, while evolving into a renewable energy hub with a planned ten-to-twentyfold expansion of wind energy production to make the Netherlands climate-neutral by 2050. 

Louise Nuijens is an associate professor in Atmospheric Science in the Geoscience & Remote Sensing Department at TU Delft since 2017 and an ECMWF Fellow since 2019. Before coming to TUD, she worked as a Postdoctoral fellow at MIT, and as a group leader of the Observations and Process Studies group in the Atmosphere Department of the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany. Her research focuses on unraveling the physical processes that underlie the interaction of convection and clouds with atmospheric circulations (winds) and the implication of such processes for weather and climate. She combines field observations with high-resolution simulations and theoretical models. 

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