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Quantifying Water Impacts from Thermoelectric Power Plants for US States and Counties - LCAXIX

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OSTI ID:1577068
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This work was presented at the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment 2019 Conference (LCAXIX) in Tucson, AZ on September 24, 2019. Thermoelectric power is responsible for 41% of all freshwater withdrawals in the United States. Reliability for power plants responding to changes in water resource availability is a concern. A robust and efficient model to determine the water use for the power generation sector for any given year could be used to identify plants that contribute a significant amount of stress on the local water supply. The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has a model that analyzes EIA 860 and 923 water use data for thermoelectric power plants. NETL and Argonne National Lab (ANL) collaborated to integrate this enhanced dataset into the AWARE-US (Available Water Remaining for the contiguous US) model to find regional water stress impacts.
Research Organization:
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
FE
DOE Contract Number:
FE0025912
OSTI ID:
1577068
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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