ComEd and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory’s Center for Climate Resilience and Decision Science released a new report that shows northern Illinois at mid-century will be warmer and more humid overall, with longer shoulder and growing seasons.
Argonne’s advanced climate modeling uses supercomputers to dynamically downscale global models. The resulting models show they can focus on climate affecting a much smaller area, such as a city. Argonne’s next climate models will approach the size of a large urban neighborhood or small rural town.
ComEd can use the knowledge to better plan for northern Illinois’ anticipated energy needs, guard against the adverse impacts of climate change and continue to deliver reliable power to customers across northern Illinois in the decades ahead.
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