Abstract
New tools are employed to develop an electricity demand map for the southeastern United States at neighbourhood resolution to serve as a baseline from which to project increases inelectricity demand due to a rise in global and local temperature and to population shifts motivated by increases in extreme weather events due to climate change. We find that electricity demand increases due to temperature rise over the next 40 years have a much smaller impact than those due to large population influx. We also find evidence that some,sections of the national electrical grid are more adaptable to these population shifts and changing demand than others are; and that detailed projections of changing local electricity demand patterns are viable and important for planning at the urban level.
