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This chapter describes some activities carried out in Italy dealing with the impact of climatic and meteorological variability on the Italian Electric System. Every item presented attends to a real problem coming from the interaction between atmosphere and energy system. In particular the activities described are relevant to the evaluation of climate change impact on the energy system, the prediction of solar and wind energy production, the monitoring and forecasting of risks for the power system coming from the weather due to insulators surface pollution, ice and snow loads on overhead lines, storms and lightning phenomena.
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RSE Spa—Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico—is a joint stock company, whose unique shareholder is GSE SpA, which develops research in electro-energy, with particular focus to the strategic national projects of general public interest, financed by the Research Fund for the Italian Electrical System under the Contract Agreement between RSE and the Ministry of Economic Development.
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ANEMOS-PLUS Project, (http://www.anemos-plus.eu/).
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Heliosat—3 Project, (http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.printdocument&PJ_RCN=4938509).
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The temperature where the consumption is at its minimum
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Transmission System Operator.
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Insulator Leakage Current Monitor System.
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“Regional Atmospheric Modelling System”, developed by Colorado State University, division: ASTER Research Corporation Mission and ATMET.
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Decibel of equivalent reflectivity.
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Pirovano, G., Faggian, P., Bonelli, P., Lacavalla, M., Marcacci, P., Ronzio, D. (2014). Combining Meteorological and Electrical Engineering Expertise to Solve Energy Management Problems. In: Troccoli, A., Dubus, L., Haupt, S. (eds) Weather Matters for Energy. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9221-4_6
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