Energy sector water use implications of a 2°C climate policy

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Fricko, Oliver ^a   Parkinson, Simon C ^a,b   Johnson, Nils ^a   Strubegger, Manfred ^a   Vliet, Michelle Th Van ^a,c   Riahi, Keywan ^a,d  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLLUTION; SUPPLY CHAINS; THERMAL POLLUTION; WATER; WATER CONSERVATION;

DEVELOPING REGIONS; ELECTRICITY DEMANDS; ENERGY SUPPLY CHAINS; ENERGY SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION; FRESH WATER CONSUMPTION; GLOBAL INTEGRATED ASSESSMENTS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; THERMAL POWER GENERATION;

WATER POLLUTION;

DEMAND ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GROWTH RATE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; POWER GENERATION; POWER PLANT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL POWER; THERMAL WATER; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER POLLUTION; WATER USE;

EID: 84958261950     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/034011     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Bouckaert S, Assoumou E, Selosse S and Maïzi N 2014 A prospective analysis of waste heat management at power plants and water conservation issues using a global TIMES model. Energy 68 80-91
2. Byers E A, Hall J W and Amezaga J M 2014 Electricity generation and cooling water use: UK pathways to 2050 Glob. Environ. Change 25 16-30
3. Cameron C, Yelverton W, Aka R and West J J 2014 Strategic responses to CO2 emission reduction targets drive shift in US electric sector water use Energy Strategy Rev. 4 16-27
4. Chuang Y L, Yang H H and Lin H J 2009 Effects of a thermal discharge from a nuclear power plant on phytoplankton and periphyton in subtropical coastal waters J. Sea Res. 61 197-205
5. Davies E G, Kyle P and Edmonds J A 2013 An integrated assessment of global and regional water demands for electricity generation to 2095 Adv. Water Resour. 52 296-313
6. Delgado A and Herzog H J 2012 Simple model to help understand water use at power plants Working Paper, Energy Initiative Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7. Döll P, Hoffmann-Dobrev H, Portmann F T, Siebert S, Eicker A, Rodell M and Scanlon B R 2012 Impact of water withdrawals from groundwater and surface water on continental water storage variations J. Geodyn. 59 143-56
8. Flörke M, Kynast E, Baerlund I, Eisner S, Wimmer F and Alcamo J 2013 Domestic and industrial water uses of the past 60 years as a mirror of socio-economic development: A global simulation study Glob. Environ. Change 23 144-56
9. Gerbens-Leenes W, Hoekstra A Y and van der Meer T H 2009 The water footprint of bioenergy Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 106 10219-23
10. IEA 2012 Water for energy: Is energy becoming a thirstier resource World Energy Outlook 2012 (Paris: International Energy Agency) ch 17
11. Kriegler E et al 2014 The role of technology for achieving climate policy objectives: Overview of the EMF 27 study on global technology and climate policy strategies Clim. Change 123 353-67
12. Kyle P, Davies E G, Dooley J J, Smith S J, Clarke L E, Edmonds J A and Hejazi M 2013 Influence of climate change mitigation technology on global demands of water for electricity generation Int. J. Greenhouse Gas Control 13 112-23
13. Macknick J, Newmark R, Heath G and Hallett K C 2012a Operational water consumption and withdrawal factors for electricity generating technologies: A review of existing literature Environ. Res. Lett. 7 045802
14. Macknick J, Sattler S, Averyt K, Clemmer S and Rogers J 2012b The water implications of generating electricity: Water use across the United States based on different electricity pathways through 2050 Environ. Res. Lett. 7 045803
15. McCollum D L, Krey V, Riahi K, Kolp P, Gruebler A, Makowski M and Nakicenovic N 2013 Climate policies can help resolve energy security and air pollution challenges Clim. Change 119 479-94
16. Mielke E, Anadon L D and Narayanamurti V 2010 Water Consumption of Energy Resource Extraction, Processing, and Conversion Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
17. Riahi K, Gruebler A and Nakicenovic N 2007 Scenarios of long-term socio-economic and environmental development under climate stabilization Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change 74 887-935
18. Riahi K et al 2012 Energy pathways for sustainable development Global Energy Assessment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) ch 17
19. Rogelj J, McCollum D L, O'Neill B C and Riahi K 2013b 2020 emissions levels required to limit warming to below 2 degrees C Nat. Clim. Change 3 405-12
20. Rogelj J, McCollum D L, Reisinger A, Meinshausen M and Riahi K 2013a Probabilistic cost estimates for climate change mitigation Nature 493 79-83
21. Stewart R J, Wollheim W M, Miara A, Vorosmarty C J, Fekete B, Lammers R B and Rosenzweig B 2013 Horizontal cooling towers: Riverine ecosystem services and the fate of thermoelectric heat in the contemporary northeast US Environ. Res. Lett. 8 025010
22. Strubegger M, Totschnig G and Zhu B 2004 MESSAGE: A technical model description Achieving a Sustainable Global Energy System: Identifying Possibilities Using Long-term Energy Scenarios pp 168-213
23. Sun N, Yearsley J, Voisin N and Lettenmaier D P 2015 A spatially distributed model for the assessment of land use impacts on stream temperature in small urban watersheds Hydrol. Process. 29 2331-45
24. Tidwell V C, Macknick J, Zemlick K, Sanchez J and Woldeyesus T 2014 Transitioning to zero freshwater withdrawal in the US for thermoelectric generation Appl. Energy 131 508-16
25. Turchi C S, Wagner M J and Kutscher C F 2010 Water use in parabolic 475 trough power plants: Summary results from worleyparsons' analyses Technical Report National Renewable Energy Laboratory
26. van Vliet M T, Franssen W H, Yearsley J R, Ludwig F, Haddeland I, Lettenmaier D P and Kabat P 2013 Global river discharge and water temperature under climate change Glob. Environ. Change 23 450-64
27. van Vuuren D P, van Vliet J and Stehfest E 2009 Future bio-energy potential under various natural constraints Energy Policy 37 4220-30
28. Webster M, Donohoo P and Palmintier B 2013 Water-CO2 trade-offs in electricity generation planning Nat. Clim. Change 3 1029-32
29. Wigley T M and Raper S C 2001 Interpretation of high projections for global-mean warming Science 293 451-4
30. Wimmer F, Audsley E, Malsy M, Savin C, Dunford R, Harrison P A, Schaldach R and Floerke M 2015 Modelling the effects of cross-sectoral water allocation schemes in Europe Clim. Change 128 229-44
31. Zhai H, Rubin E S and Versteeg P L 2011 Water use at pulverized coal power plants with post-combustion carbon capture and storage Environ. Sci. Technol. 45 2479-85