Drought and the water-energy nexus in Texas

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Scanlon, Bridget R ^a   Duncan, Ian ^a   Reedy, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

drought vulnerability; natural gas; thermoelectric generation; water energy nexus

Indexed keywords

COAL COMBUSTION; COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANTS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRICITY; GAS PLANTS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; NATURAL GAS; STEAM TURBINES;

ELECTRICITY DEMANDS; GAS PRODUCTIONS; NATURAL GAS COMBINED CYCLE PLANTS; RESERVOIR STORAGE; STEAM TURBINE PLANTS; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATION; WATER REQUIREMENTS; WATER-ENERGY NEXUS;

DROUGHT;

DEMAND ANALYSIS; DROUGHT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EXTREME EVENT; GAS PRODUCTION; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; NATURAL GAS; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POWER GENERATION; POWER PLANT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891905382     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/045033     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. US Drought Monitor aJ http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/archive.html
2. Kenny J F, Barber N L, Hutson S S, Linsey K S, Lovelace J K and Maupin M A 2009 Estimated use of water in the United States in 2005 US Geol. Surv. Circular vol 1344 52 p
3. Solley W B, Pierce R R and Perlman H A 1998 Estimated use of water in the United States in 1995 USGS Circular vol 1200 71 p
4. Wilson W, Leipzig T and Griffiths-Sattenspiel B 2012 Burning Our Rivers: The Water Footprint of Electricity; River Network (Austin, TX: Comptroller of Public Accounts, Data Division Services) Publication No. 96-1704 62 p
5. Turner B L 2010 Vulnerability and resilience: coalescing or paralleling approaches for sustainability science? Glob. Environ. Change-Human Policy Dimensions 20 570-6
6. Birkmann J et al 2013 Framing vulnerability, risk and societal responses: the MOVE framework Nature Hazards 67 193-211 (in English)
7. Averyt K B, Fisher J B, Huber-Lee A T, Lewis A, Macknick J, Madden N T, Rogers J and Tellinghuisen S 2011 Freshwater Use by US Power Plants Electricity's Thirst for a Precious Resource: A Report of the Energy and Water in a Warming World Initiative NREL Report No. TP-6A20-5327 (Cambridge, MA: Union of Concerned Scientists) 62 p
8. Rogers J, Averyt K, Clemmer S, Davis M, Flores-Lopez F, Frumhoff P, Kenney D, Macknick J, Madden N, Meldrum J, Overpeck J, Sattler S, Spanger-Siegfried E and Yates D 2013 Water-smart Power: Strengthening the U.S. Electricity System in a Warming World (Cambridge, MA: Union of Concerned Scientists) 50 p
9. Rijsberman F R 2006 Water scarcity: fact or fiction? Agricult. Water Manag. 80 5-22 (Pubitemid 43163182)
10. DOE 2013 US Energy Sector Vulnerabilities to Climate Change and Extreme Weather US Department of Energy Rept. (variably paginated)
11. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 2012 Standard Technical Specifications - Combustion Engineering Plants, Section 3.7.9, Revision 4 NUREG-1432
12. EIA Energy Information Administraiton 2013 How much electricity is lost in transmission and distribution in the United States? www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/, (accessed July 2013)
13. Harto C B, Yan Y E, Demissie Y K, Elcock D, Tidwell V C, Hallett K C, Macknick J, Wigmosta M S and Tesfa T K 2011 Analysis of Drought Impacts on Electricity Production in the Western and Texas Interconnections of the United States (Chicago, IL: Argonne National Laboratory)
14. Kimmel T A and Veil J A 2009 Impact of drought on US steam electric power plant cooling water intakes and related water resource management issues DOE NETL Rept. 1364
15. Freedman A 2012 Heat and drought pose risks for nuclear power plants www.climatecentral.org/blogs/heat-and-drought-pose-risks-for-nuclear-power- plants, published 18 Jul 2012
16. Wald M 2012 Heat shuts down a coastal reactor New York Times Green Blog 13 August 2012. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/heat-shuts-down-a- coastal-reactor/
17. Robine J, Cheung S L K, Le Roy S, van Oyen H, Griffiths C, Michel J P and Hermann F R 2008 Death toll exceeded 70 000 in Europe during the summer of 2003 Comptes Rendus Biologies 331 171-8
18. Fink A H, Brucher T, Kruger A, Leckebusch G C, Pinto J G and Ulbrich U 2004 The 2003 European summer heatwaves and drought - synoptic diagnosis and impacts Weather 59 209-16
19. Cooley H, Fulton J and Gleick P H 2011 Water for Energy: Future Water Needs for Electricity in the Intermountain West (Oakland, CA: Pacific Institute)
20. GAO 2012 Energy-Water Nexus: Coordinated Federal Approach Needed to Better Manage Energy and Water Tradeoffs GAO-12-880, 34 p
21. Karl T R, Melillo J M and Peterson T C (ed) 2009 Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States: A State of Knowledge Report from the U.S. Global Change Research Program (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) p 188
22. Wehner M, Easterling D R, Lawrimore J H, Heim R R, Vose R S and Santer B D 2011 Projections of future drought in the continental United States and Mexico J. Hydrometeorol. 12 1359-77
23. Nielsen-Gammon J D 2011 The 2011 Texas Drought, Briefing Packet for the Texas Legislature http://climatexas.tamu.edu/files/2011-drought.pdf 31 October
24. GAO 2009 Energy-water Nexus: improvements to Federal water use data would increase understanding of trends in power plant water use GAO-10-23: Report to the Chairman, Committee on Science and Technology, House of Representatives
25. EIA, Energy Information Adminstration 2013 Annual Energy Outlook 2013 with Projections to 2040: Rept. DOE/EIA-0383(2013) (Washington, DC: EIA) 233 pp
26. Scanlon B R, Reedy R C, Duncan I, Mullican W F III and Young M Y 2013 Controls on water use for thermoelectric generation: case study Texas, US Environ. Sci. Technol. 47 11326-34
27. Yan Y E, Tidwell V C, King C W and Cook M A 2013 Impact of future climate variability on ERCOT thermoelectric power generation Argonne National Laboratory Rept. ANL/EVS/R-13/2, (variably paginated)
28. EIA 2011 Texas Heat Wave, August 2011 EIA Today in Energy 9 Sep 2011 www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=3010
29. ECHO E (EPA Enforcement & Compliance History Online (ECHO)) accessed June 2013
30. Solis R 2012 Texas Water Development Board personal communication
31. TWDB (Water Use Survey) www.twdb.state.tx.us/waterplanning/ waterusesurvey/
32. LCRA 2011 LCRA water use summary 2011 www.lcra.org/library/media/public/ docs/water/WaterUseSupply2011.pdf, accessed Feb 2013
33. TWDB 2011 2009 Water Use Summary Estimates www.twdb.state.tx.us/wrpi/wus/ summary.asp
34. TWDB 2012 Water for Texas 2012 State Water Plan Texas Water Development Board p 299
35. Combs S 2012 The impact of the 2011 drought and beyond Comptroller of Public Accounts (Austin, TX: Comptroller of Public Accounts, Data Division Services) Publication No. 96-1704 13 p
36. Grubert E A, Beach F C and Webber M E 2012 Can switching fuels save water? A life cycle quantification of freshwater consumption for Texas coal- and natural gas-fired electricity Environ. Res. Lett. 7 045801
37. Poch L, Conzelmann G and Veselka T 2009 An analysis of the effects of drought conditions on electric power generation in the Western United States DOE NETL Rept 2009-1365 32 p
38. Nicot J P and Scanlon B R 2012 Water use for shale-gas production in Texas, US Environ. Sci. Technol. 46 3580-6
39. Laurenzi I J and Jersey G R 2013 Life cycle greenhouse gas emissions and freshwater consumption of Marcellus Shale gas Environ. Sci. Technol. 47 4896-903 (in English)
40. Gold R 2013 Rise in US gas production fuels unexpected plunge in emissions Wall Street J. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/ SB10001424127887324763404578430751849503848
41. TCEQ 2012 27 June 2011 Brazos River Basin Warning Letter to Municipal and Power Generation Water Users www.tceq.texas.gov/response/drought/letters- archive.html/#brazos
42. www.windenergyoftexas.com (Wind Energy of Texas, accessed Jan 2013) - ref-separator -
43. www.awea.org (American Wind Energy Association, accessed Jan 2013) - ref-separator -
44. EPRI 2011 Economic Evaluation of Alternative Cooling Technologies (Palo Alto, CA: EPRI) 1024805
45. ERCOT 2011 Review of the Potential Impacts of Proposed Environmental Regulations on the ERCOT System, Revision 1 (Austin, TX: ERCOT) 21 June 2011
46. Tidwell V 2013 Transitioning to zero feshwater withdrawal for thermoelectric generation in the United States Environ. Sci. Technol.
47. ERCOT 2012 Long-term System Assessment for the ERCOT Region, December 2012 (Austin, TX: ERCOT) 22 p
48. Chen L M, Roy S B and Goldstein R A 2013 Projected freshwater withdrawals under efficiency scenarios for electricity generation and municipal use in the United States for 2030 J. Am. Water Resour. Assoc. 49 231-46
49. LCRA www.lcra.org/energy/power/facilities/fergusonstudy.html, accessed Feb. 2013
50. Maulbetsch J S and DiFilippo M N 2006 Cost and Value of Water Use at Combined-Cycle Power Plants. California Energy Commission, PIER Energy-Related Environmental Research. CEC-500- 2006-034 Final Report prepared for California Energy Commission, Public Interest Energy Reserach Program CEC-500-2006-034, 43 p
51. Ku A Y and Shapiro A P 2012 The energy-water nexus: water use trends in sustainable energy and opportunities for materials research and development MRS Bull. 37 439-47
52. EIA, Energy Information Adminstraiton 2013 Electricity reliability report released; Texas and California raise concerns for summer Today in Energy (Washington, DC: EIA)
53. Dillon P J, Pavelic P, Page D, Beringen H and Ward J 2009 Managed aquifer recharge, An introduction Waterlines Report Series No. 13 86 p
54. Pyne R D G 2005 Aquifer Storage and Recovery: A Guide to Groundwater Recharge Through Wells 2nd edn (Gainesville, FL: ASR Press)
55. Li H, Chien S H, Hsieh M K, Dzombak D A and Vidic R D 2011 Escalating water demand for energy production and the potential for use of treated municipal wastewater Environ. Sci. Technol. 45 4195-200
56. Guyton L B G and Associates 2003 Brackish groundwater manual for Texas regional water planning groups Report Prepared for the Texas Water Development Board p 188
57. Guyton L B G and Associates 2008 Report on brackish source water exploration in the San Angelo, Texas area Report Prepared for the Upper Colorado River Authority, Texas Water Development Board (variably paginated)
58. Clayton M E, Kjellsson J and Webber M E 2013 A white paper on the integration of renewable power and brackish groundwater desalination in Texas University of Texas at Austin and Texas Tech Renewables 6 p
59. Tresaugue M 2013 Eyes of Texas are upon the Gulf for drinking water Houston Chronicle, Texas (June 10)