Water demands for electricity generation in the U.S.: Modeling different scenarios for the water-energy nexus

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 94, Issue , 2015, Pages 318-334

  Liu, Lu ^a   Hejazi, Mohamad ^a   Patel, Pralit ^a   Kyle, Page ^a   Davies, Evan ^b   Zhou, Yuyu ^a   Clarke, Leon ^a   Edmonds, James ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate mitigation policy; Global change assessment model (GCAM); Water energy nexus

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE MODELS; COOLING SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; LAND USE; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER SUPPLY;

ASSESSMENT MODELS; CLIMATE MITIGATIONS; CLOSED LOOP COOLING SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED MODELING APPROACHES; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; TRADING OF ELECTRICITIES; WATER ENERGY; WATER SAVING TECHNOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FUTURE PROSPECT; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; MODELING; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; WATER DEMAND; WATER PLANNING; WATER USE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84940496520     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.11.004     Document Type: Article

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