GC53G:
Renewable Energy: Wind, Solar, Marine, and Open Topics II

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Session ID#: 15821

Session Description:
The session will focus on the science, technology and policy issues of wave, current, and tidal energy conversion for electric utilities. Studies focusing on environmental effects of marine hydrokinetic energy devices (e.g., acoustic and electromagnetic influences to aquatic and benthic species, altered hydrodynamics, water quality, and sediment transport, or changes to currents, wave regimes, and tidal ranges), environmental monitoring, device performance evaluation, and resource assessment are of interest. Wave-energy converters will also be a focus. Studies in riverine environments are also appropriate. Assessment of policy or decision making associated with implementation of renewable energies are also welcome, but may be categorized into the Integration, Policy and Open Topics session.
Primary Convener:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Maria L Beninati, Bucknell University, Mechanical Engineering, Lewisburg, PA, United States, Andrew Clifton, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, CO, United States and Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States
Chairs:  Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States and Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

1694 Instruments and techniques [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1699 General or miscellaneous [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Climate mitigation is not the only benefit of a national energy system (Invited) (124135)
Christopher Clack, University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Solar irradiance assessment in insular areas using Himawari-8 satellite images (134809)
Sylvain Cros, Olivier Liandrat, Mathieu Turpin and Jean-François Pineau, Reuniwatt, Sainte-Clotilde, Reunion
Impact of Atmospheric Aerosols on Solar Photovoltaic Electricity Generation in China (167826)
Xiaoyuan Li, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Denise L. Mauzerall, Princeton University, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Civil and Environmental Engineering Dept., Princeton, NJ, United States, Fabian Wagner, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, Wei Peng, Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, United States and Junnan Yang, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton, NJ, United States
The Photovoltaic Heat Island Effect: Larger solar power plants increase local temperatures (197180)
Nathan Allen, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Rebecca L. Minor, University of Arizona, School of Geography & Development, Tucson, AZ, United States, Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, University of Maryland, Environmental Science and Technology, College Park, United States and Greg Barron-Gafford, University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development & Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
On- and off-grid operation of hybrid renewable power plants: When are the economics favorable? (123439)
Fontina Petrakopoulou, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States and Domingo Santana, Organization Not Listed, Department of Thermal and Fluid Engineering, Washington, DC, United States
Potential decline in geothermal energy generation due to rising temperatures under climate change scenarios (191891)
Enrique Angel, Programa en Ingeniería Ambiental, Universidad EIA, Envigado, Colombia, Santiago Ortega, Escuela de Ingenieria de Antioquia, Envigado, Colombia, Daniel Gonzalez-Duque, The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States and Daniel Ruiz-Carrascal, Antioquia School of Engineering - Colombia, Environmental Engineering Program, Envigado, Colombia

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