Water for electricity in India: A multi-model study of future challenges and linkages to climate change mitigation
This paper provides projections of water withdrawals and consumption for electricity generation in India through 2050. Based on the results from five energy-economic modeling teams, the paper explores the implications of economic growth, power plant cooling policies, and electricity CO 2 emissions reductions on water withdrawals and consumption. To understand how different modeling approaches derive different results for energy-water interactions, the five teams used harmonized assumptions regarding economic and population growth, the distribution of power plants by cooling technologies, and withdrawals and consumption intensities. The multi-model study provides robust results regarding the different but potentially complementary implications of cooling technology policies and efforts to reduce CO 2 emissions. The water implications of CO 2 emissions reductions depend critically on the approach to these reductions. Focusing on wind and solar power reduces consumption and withdrawals, a focus on nuclear power increases both, and a focus on hydroelectric power could increase consumptive losses through evaporation. Policies focused specifically on cooling water can have substantial and complementary impacts.
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- Centre for Study of Science, Technology, and Policy, Bangalore (India)
- Joint Global Change Research Inst., College Park, MD (United States)
- Council on Energy, Environment and Water, New Delhi (India)
- Integrated Research and Action for Development, New Delhi (India)
- The Energy and Resources Inst., New Delhi (India)
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- Report Number(s):
- PNNL-SA-122615
Journal ID: ISSN 0306-2619; PII: S0306261917304725
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
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- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Applied Energy
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 210; Journal ID: ISSN 0306-2619
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Research Org:
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org:
- USDOE
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; India; electricity generation; water withdrawals; water consumption; emissions
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1364388
Srinivasan, Shweta, Kholod, Nazar, Chaturvedi, Vaibhav, Ghosh, Probal Pratap, Mathur, Ritu, Clarke, Leon, Evans, Meredydd, Hejazi, Mohamad, Kanudia, Amit, Koti, Poonam Nagar, Liu, Bo, Parikh, Kirit S., Ali, Mohd. Sahil, and Sharma, Kabir. Water for electricity in India: A multi-model study of future challenges and linkages to climate change mitigation. United States: N. p.,
Web. doi:10.1016/J.APENERGY.2017.04.079.
Srinivasan, Shweta, Kholod, Nazar, Chaturvedi, Vaibhav, Ghosh, Probal Pratap, Mathur, Ritu, Clarke, Leon, Evans, Meredydd, Hejazi, Mohamad, Kanudia, Amit, Koti, Poonam Nagar, Liu, Bo, Parikh, Kirit S., Ali, Mohd. Sahil, & Sharma, Kabir. Water for electricity in India: A multi-model study of future challenges and linkages to climate change mitigation. United States. doi:10.1016/J.APENERGY.2017.04.079.
Srinivasan, Shweta, Kholod, Nazar, Chaturvedi, Vaibhav, Ghosh, Probal Pratap, Mathur, Ritu, Clarke, Leon, Evans, Meredydd, Hejazi, Mohamad, Kanudia, Amit, Koti, Poonam Nagar, Liu, Bo, Parikh, Kirit S., Ali, Mohd. Sahil, and Sharma, Kabir. 2017.
"Water for electricity in India: A multi-model study of future challenges and linkages to climate change mitigation". United States.
doi:10.1016/J.APENERGY.2017.04.079. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1364388.
@article{osti_1364388,
title = {Water for electricity in India: A multi-model study of future challenges and linkages to climate change mitigation},
author = {Srinivasan, Shweta and Kholod, Nazar and Chaturvedi, Vaibhav and Ghosh, Probal Pratap and Mathur, Ritu and Clarke, Leon and Evans, Meredydd and Hejazi, Mohamad and Kanudia, Amit and Koti, Poonam Nagar and Liu, Bo and Parikh, Kirit S. and Ali, Mohd. Sahil and Sharma, Kabir},
abstractNote = {This paper provides projections of water withdrawals and consumption for electricity generation in India through 2050. Based on the results from five energy-economic modeling teams, the paper explores the implications of economic growth, power plant cooling policies, and electricity CO2 emissions reductions on water withdrawals and consumption. To understand how different modeling approaches derive different results for energy-water interactions, the five teams used harmonized assumptions regarding economic and population growth, the distribution of power plants by cooling technologies, and withdrawals and consumption intensities. The multi-model study provides robust results regarding the different but potentially complementary implications of cooling technology policies and efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. The water implications of CO2 emissions reductions depend critically on the approach to these reductions. Focusing on wind and solar power reduces consumption and withdrawals, a focus on nuclear power increases both, and a focus on hydroelectric power could increase consumptive losses through evaporation. Policies focused specifically on cooling water can have substantial and complementary impacts.},
doi = {10.1016/J.APENERGY.2017.04.079},
journal = {Applied Energy},
number = ,
volume = 210,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {5}
}
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