Climate-Driven Ampacity Analysis of High-Voltage Power Lines

The impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly evident across Central Europe, with a rising frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including heatwaves, strong winds, and heavy precipitation. These evolving climatic conditions pose growing challenges to the operation, reliability, and planning of electricity transmission infrastructure. Although the decarbonization of electricity generation is progressing rapidly, much of the existing transmission network was designed under historical climate assumptions that no longer reflect current or future environmental conditions.