Report on future evolution of sunshine duration and solar radiation over Sicily. Project ECLISE (Enabling CLimate Information Services for Europe) - RESEARCH REPORT - Work package: WP6 – ENERGY – TASK 6.8: Future energy demand in Italy

This report describes the activities performed by ISAC-CNR to produce Deliverable 6.17 of the ECLISE Project – High-resolution estimates of 2030-2060 summer temperatures. These activities were performed within task 6.6 - Future energy demand in Italy that also allowed producing deliverable 6.16 – High-resolution gridded temperature dataset over Italy for the past 5 decades. Deliverable 6.17 was produced in order to fulfil RSE (Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico, one of the users of the ECLISE Project) needing. The estimated high-resolution future temperatures were used as input data of a model, developed in cooperation with RSE, in order to assess the impact of temperature on Italian electricity demand. The application of the model to scenario data allowed investigating the sensibility of the present-day electricity demand to climate variability and change.