Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
BEHAVIORAL
Re(location)
Anticipation
OperationandMaintenance
(Re)locate in areas
Emergency planning
Manage on-site drainage and
with lower risk of
runof
looding/drought
Changes in coal handling due to
(re)locate to safer areas,
increased moisture content
build dikes to contain
Adapt regulations so that a
looding, reinforce
higher discharge temperature is
walls and roofs
allowed
Consider water re-use and
integration technologies at
reineries
(Re)locate based on
Adapt plant operations to
changes in low regime
change in river low paterns
Operational complementarities
with other sources (for example,
natural gas
(Re)locate based on
expected changes in wind
speeds
(Re)locate based on
anticipated sea level rise
and changes in river looding
• Encouraging incentive structures that promote innovation. Risk management
strategies nearly always beneit from innovation. Because innovation usually
carries with it some degree of risk, since the new approach has not been fully
validated by experience, it tends to emerge more quickly when it is supported
by incentives - within, and especially external to, energy institutions. In many
cases, this can be a fertile area for public-private sector cooperation in the
national interest.
• Identifying strategies that ofer prospects of net value rather than net cost
(“value chains”). As suggested in section III B 1, risk management will be more
aggressively pursued if it is imbedded in actions that ofer value added, not just
costs avoided. In many circumstances, especially if and as market conditions are
“greening,” this is a case that can be made
B. Approaches That Support Risk Management
The references listed above, along with discussions of risk management elsewhere in the
NCA process and the energy supply and use technical input workshop discussion, sug-
gest a number of approaches that are often useful, including the following.
