<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><h1 class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: -1px; line-height: 35px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', FreeSans, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font size="4" class="" style="font-weight: normal;">Report: Climate Change May Pose Threat to Nation’s Electric Grid</font></h1><div class=""><a href="http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/07/27/459196.htm" class="">http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/07/27/459196.htm</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Excerpt: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">“Lights out: The risks of climate and natural disaster related disruption to the electric grid” is the fourth report on which the university and international reinsurer have partnered.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Last year the collaborative produced a report on the impact of climate change on the spread of pandemics, which <a href="http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2016/06/09/416507.htm" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">was covered by Insurance Journal</a>. Previous reports produced by Johns Hopkins and Swiss Re were on <a href="http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/07/27/2.%09http:/www.swissre.com/library/Fueling_resilience__Climate_and_Wildfire_Risk_in_the_United_States.html" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">climate and wildfire risk</a> in the U.S., and on <a href="http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/07/27/3.%09http:/www.swissre.com/library/expertise-publication/Own_your_risk_reframing_risk_and_resiliency_in_the_Columbia_River_Basin.html" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">resiliency in the Columbia River</a> basin.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">The <a href="http://www.swissre.com/library/archive/lights_out_the_risks_of_climate_and_natural_disaster_related_disruption_to_the_electric_grid.html" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(159, 7, 0); text-decoration: none;">latest report</a> calls attention to the risk of climate change creating more frequent extreme weather events.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">The report states that climate change “presents epistemic risks beyond predictable, ordinary weather-related risks to the electric grid,” which could put the structural integrity of the nation’s ageing electric infrastructure under greater strain.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">“A combination of higher average temperatures, more destructive storms and hurricanes, and increased risk of wildfire will ultimately worsen risk exposure for utilities,” the report states.</p></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/07/27/459196.htm" class="">http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/07/27/459196.htm</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
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