SXSW 2025
Texas is So Hot: An Energy Future of Extremes
Description:
Around the world, extreme temperatures are rising past human livability— more than a moment in the uninhabited desert. In places suffering under war or deep drought, traditional energy cannot operate. How do the lessons of extremes instruct us about the future of energy? How do new energy futures imply radical change in society? This panel will explore future energy dynamics, profiling extreme conditions and energy system operation under duress. Speakers will discuss radical and hostile contexts and models for adaptation in a hot and less habitable world.
Other Resources / Information
Recent example, June 12 2024, State Energy Security Bootcamp & Risk Cohorts Workshop
https://esbootcamp.naseo.org/
We designed state energy security risk work, shared laboratory science on evolving natural hazards, and spoke broadly on energy futures and risks.
Takeaways
- There are profound lessons for the future about the way we are running energy dynamics in increasingly hostile (hot, dry, war) world.
- Extreme conditions and radical changes to energy systems will provoke engineering innovation and social change.
- Models for managing systems under extreme conditions help us imagine change and design energy futures pathways (rather than falling off cliffs).
Speakers
- Rebecca O'Neil, Advisor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Andrew Bochman, Senior Grid Strategist and Infrastructure Defender, National and Homeland Security, Idaho National Laboratory
Organizer
Rebecca O'Neil, Advisor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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