GC31E:
The Water-Energy Nexus: Data, Impacts, and Opportunities I Posters


Session ID#: 8425

Session Description:
Water and energy are undeniably interconnected – water is withdrawn and consumed in energy production and energy is required to extract, treat and distribute water and treat wastewater. These interdependencies are complicated by changes in climate, socioeconomics and technology. Meanwhile, energy and water systems are often developed, managed and regulated independently. Thus, a holistic understanding of water-energy interactions, synergies and tradeoffs is direly needed to effectively manage and devise sustainable water-energy policies. This session provides an open forum for discussions of the data, trends, impacts and opportunities of the water-energy nexus. We welcome interdisciplinary studies, including: a) water use for energy production; b) energy consumption for water use; c) broad impacts of water use for energy (e.g., drought, wastewater and thermal pollution); d) consequences of energy consumption for water use (e.g., greenhouse gas emissions, limiting economic growth); e) potential opportunities for sustainable use; and f) related policies, management and legislation.
Primary Convener:  Yaling Liu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Mohamad Issa Hejazi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, Dev Niyogi, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences and Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, TX, United States and Ashlynn S. Stillwell, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Chairs:  Mohamad Issa Hejazi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Dev Niyogi, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Mohamad Issa Hejazi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • H - Hydrology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • IGBP: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme -
Index Terms:

0495 Water/energy interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
6344 System operation and management [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Assessment of Land and Water Resource Implications of the UK 2050 Carbon Plan (58212)
Daniel Dennis Konadu, Zenaida Sobral Mourao, Sandy Skelton and Rick Lupton, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The coastal area of Togo: A space vulnerable to sea level rise hotly disputed (61878)
Pessiezoum Dieudonne Adjoussi, University of Lome, Geography, Lome, Togo
Global energy consumption for direct water use (67082)
Yaling Liu1, Mohamad Issa Hejazi2, Son H Kim3, Page Kyle3, Evan G Davies4, Diego G. Miralles5, Ryan Teuling6, Yujie He7 and Dev Niyogi8, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), College Park, United States, (4)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (5)Ghent University, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Gent, Belgium, (6)Hydrology Quant. Water Mgnt, Wageningen, Netherlands, (7)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (8)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Climate change impacts on thermoelectric-power generation in the United States (70042)
Dr. Lu Liu, PhD, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Water-Constrained Electric Sector Capacity Expansion Modeling Under Climate Change Scenarios (82958)
Stuart Michael Cohen, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States, Jordan Macknick, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, United States, Ariel Miara, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, NY, United States, Charles J Vorosmarty, Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, United States, Kristen Averyt, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, James Meldrum, University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Fabio Corsi, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, Alexander A Proussevitch, University of New Hampshire, Climate Change Research Center, Durham, NH, United States and Imtiaz Rangwala, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Hydropower and Environmental Resource Assessment (HERA): a computational tool for the assessment of the hydropower potential of watersheds considering engineering and socio-environmental aspects. (70304)
Rafael Kelman1, Marcelo Metello2, Angelo Ciarlini3, Andre Carneiro Granville1, Pedro Hespanhol4, Tarcisio LC Castro1,5, Vinicius Michel Gottin3, Tainá Martins1,5, Mario Veiga Ferraz Pereira1 and HERA team, (1)PSR, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, (2)Infogea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (3)EMC Brazil Reseach & Development Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (4)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)UFRJ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Demands For Solar Electricity From The BRICS Countries In The Future (72770)
Yi Fan, Michigan State University, Geography, East Lansing, MI, United States
Sensitivity of Regional Hydropower Generation to the Projected Changes in Future Watershed Hydrology (73434)
Shih-Chieh Kao1, Bibi S Naz1 and Sudershan Gangrade2, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Data Management System for the National Energy-Water System (NEWS) Assessment Framework (74503)
Alexander A Proussevitch1, Fabio Corsi2, Stanley Glidden1, Michael Piasecki3, Paul Celicourt, PhD.2, Ariel Miara4, Balazs M Fekete5, Charles J Vorosmarty6, Jordan Macknick7 and Stuart Michael Cohen8, (1)University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States, (2)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)CUNY Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, NY, United States, (5)CUNY City College of New York, Civil Engineering, New York, NY, United States, (6)Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, United States, (7)National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, United States, (8)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States
An Integrated Assessment of Water Scarcity Effects on Energy and Land Use Decisions and Mitigation Policies (75402)
Mohamad Issa Hejazi1, Son H Kim2, Dr. Lu Liu, PhD3, Yaling Liu4, Katherine V Calvin4, Leon Clarke5, James Edmonds1, Page Kyle6, Pralit Patel7, Marshall A Wise8 and Evan G Davies9, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Richland, WA, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI), College Park, United States, (7)Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (8)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, United States, (9)University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Modeling Water Resource Systems Accounting for Water-Related Energy Use, GHG Emissions and Water-Dependent Energy Generation in California (75839)
Alvar Escriva-Bou, Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, United States, Jay R Lund, Center of Watershed Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Manuel Pulido-Velazquez, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain and Josue Medellin-Azuara, University of California, Merced, Water Systems Management Lab, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, United States
Vulnerability of the US Western Electric Grid to Hydro-Climatological Conditions: how bad can it get?  (76109)
Nathalie Voisin1, Michael Kintner-Meyer1, Richard Skaggs2, James Dirks1, Tony B Nguyen1, Di Wu1, Yulong Xie1 and Mohamad Issa Hejazi1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Energy and Environment Directorate, Richland, WA, United States
Energy for Water Utilization in China and Policy Implications for Integrated Planning (76704)
Xi Li, Peking University, Beijing, China, Jie Liu, Peking University, College of Engineering, Beijing, China and Chunmiao Zheng, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States
Characterizing Synergistic Water and Energy Efficiency at the Residential Scale Using a Cost Abatement Curve Approach (76900)
Ashlynn S. Stillwell1, Christopher Chini2, Kelsey L. Schreiber2 and Zachary A. Barker2, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
The Water – Energy Nexus Of Hydropower. Are The Trade-Offs Between Electricity Generation And Water Supply Negligible? (78053)
Laura Scherer and Stephan Pfister, Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Impact of Alternative Environmental Flow Prescriptions on Hydropower Production and Fish Habitat Suitability (79228)
Attilio Castellarin1, Serena Ceola1, Alessio Pugliese1 and Giorgio A. Galeati2, (1)University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, (2)ENEL, Mestre (VE), Italy
Hazard-Specific Vulnerability Mapping for Water Security in a Shale Gas Context (81059)
Diana M Allen, Shannon Holding and Zac McKoen, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Development of a Computational Framework for Stochastic Co-optimization of Water and Energy Resource Allocations under Climatic Uncertainty (83584)
Yi Xuan1, Kumar Mahinthakumar2, Sankar Arumugam3 and Joseph DeCarolis2, (1)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, (2)NC State Univ-Civil & Env Engr, Raleigh, NC, United States, (3)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, United States
Impact of Water Availability on Regional Power System Operations – A Case Study of ERCOT (85289)
Todd Levin and Zhi Zhou, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States
Modeling the vulnerability of hydroelectricity generation under drought scenarios (86233)
Eugene Yan1, Vincent Carroll Tidwell2, Matthew Bizjack3, Vicky Espinoza4 and Alissa Jared4, (1)Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Lemont, United States, (2)Sandia Natl Laboratories, Albuquerque, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (4)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States
Power System Operations With Water Constraints (86678)
Feng Qiu and Jianhui Wang, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States

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