Climate change to affect electric power in Asia: ADB

ADB warned that electric power in Asia and the Pacific is vulnerable to climate change impacts.

Much of the Asia-Pacific electric power infrastructure is located at places where weather and climate change are expected to be increasing variable, such as areas that are flood prone, low-lying, drought prone, and highly exposed to severe storms.

According to the report entitled "Climate Risk and Adaptation in the Electric Power Sector", climate change is expected to affect the entire sector, including fuel mining or production, fuel transportation to power plants, electricity generation, high voltage transmission through grid networks, and low voltage distribution to consumers. Patterns of energy load growth and end-use demand by consumers will also be altered by climate change.

Concluding that fossil fuel production and transportation is vulnerable to climate change, coal is expected to be the main fuel for Asia's electricity production for the next several decades.

Besides, fuel mining or production, fuel transportation to power plants, electricity generation, high voltage transmission through grid networks, and low voltage distribution to consumers. Patterns of energy load growth and end-use demand by consumers will also be altered by climate change.

In this regard, the study referred the oil refineries in Pakistan which were shut down due to flooding in 2010.

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