Energy: Targets

The 10-Year Implementation Plan sets out the following two-, six- and ten-year targets for guiding the energy-related work on GEOSS:

2-Year Targets

• Facilitate the exchange and use of existing data/products and forecast information through specific initiatives and actions in coordination with the energy community:
  (i) to raise awareness about the importance and potential of environmental information;
  (ii) to facilitate access to the existing information and products; and
  (iii) to develop training and encourage the development of decision-support tools for optimal energy use.
• Produce, in coordination with the energy community, a strategic 5-10 year plan for exploitation of the benefits of the new generation of operational observing systems - both space-based and in situ - which comes on-stream in this decade. The plan should include efforts on:
  (i) operationalizing existing research capabilities to meet the needs of the energy industry;
  (ii) research and development in advanced end-to end modelling and forecasting techniques (such as ensemble-based methods) covering both environmental and energy processes, and with an emphasis on issues of risk assessment;
  (iii) the improvement of information networks by linking existing systems and making them inter-operable;
  (iv) continue efforts to raise awareness of, facilitate access to, and operationalize improved methodologies for exploitation of GEOSS data and information products for the industry.

6-Year Targets

• Produce an evaluation of the Plan’s progress with regard to energy and revise strategy as needed. The revised Plan will also include an assessment of the needs of the energy sector for new and/or enhanced GEOSS observations and products.
• Facilitate the exchange of data and products for efficient energy management.
• Facilitate the use of improved weather and climate products for the development of new energy tailored products and services.

10-Year Targets

• Facilitate the implementation of appropriate operational observing systems – space-based and in situ - for the continuous and sustainable provision of reliable and timely data in support of energy operations.
• Advocate the development of new generation (higher resolution, additional variables…) weather and climate forecasting models.
  Facilitate capacity building in order to bring energy management at the local level to equivalent high (national and regional) levels of efficiency.
• Facilitate the development of renewable energy systems taking advantage of products available through GEOSS.