Enhancing Tanzania’s Hydropower Production Through Advanced Climate Services
WEMC is partnering with the UK Met Office and Tanzania Meteorological Authority (TMA) to develop climate services for energy in Tanzania as part of the EU-funded FOCUS-AFRICA project. Hydropower is the largest source of renewable energy in Tanzania, utilising nine river basins. Our changing global climate and the potential impacts to hydropower-generated electricity systems need [...]
Advancing climate services for a sustainable future: WEMC’s role in tackling the energy transition
You may not be familiar with ‘climate services’ but will certainly know about climate change. WEMC are climate data specialists, we collect, analyse, and interpret data around our global climate, and then look for data-driven solutions to help inform decision-making aimed at tackling pressing climate issues for use by a variety of stakeholders. We focus [...]
The WEMC-developed free global climate data tool Teal was released in 2020 to help raise awareness of our changing climate. Four years on, it continues to attract a growing number of users across education and business. So why is it proving so popular? It’s user-friendly, visually appealing, and designed to be a useful climate data [...]
Training for climate services in Tanzania and Southern African Countries
Our WEMC colleague, Data Engineer Meshack Mliwa, is overseeing the development of climate services for two of the important case studies that make up the EU-funded FOCUS-AFRICA project: Energy and Water in Malawi, and Food Security in Tanzania. The case studies, eight in total, aim to provide examples of where practical and useful climate services […]