Cody Warner presents his recent U.C. Berkeley research on how electric utilities can prevent wildfires. To adapt to growing wildfire risk, electric utilities around the world are making significant investments in wildfire risk mitigation. These investments, which can substantially impact retail electricity prices and electricity supply reliability, are being made with limited evidence on cost-effectiveness. Combining machine learning and econometric methods, his research estimated the impacts of alternative wildfire prevention strategies on ignition risk and related wildfire outcomes. These findings inform widespread efforts to adapt to wildfire risk while containing costs and limiting adverse impacts to electricity consumers.

350 Humboldt Speaker Series. Monday July 8, 7pm.  Zoomlink:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84655626970?pwd=aWciChiGl0NlSyYT0fn8sdne4cjmKV.1
 
Meeting ID: 846 5562 6970
Passcode: 091783
Cody Warner is an energy and environmental economist focusing on adaptation to climate change in the electric power sector. His Ph.D. dissertation investigates the risk and cost implications of electric utility investment in wildfire mitigation, and was featured in an article by The New York Times.  Cody was also a researcher with Lawrence Berkeley Lab’s Electricity Markets and Policy Group, where he modeled the market value of utility-scale solar and battery storage plants.

Co-sponsored by EPIC, Friends of the Eel, HUUF Climate Action Campaign, and Humboldt Friends.