A review of hydropower in Austria: Past, present and future development

Wagner, Beatrice; Hauer, Christoph; Schoder, Angelika; Habersack, Helmut

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2015.04.169

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“…12 where hydropower accounts for a large portion of the total electricity generations in summer and parts of electricity are exported to other countries (Bauer, 2009;Wagner et al, 2015;IEA, 2016). In general, the reasonable agreement between simulation and observation suggests the effectiveness of Eq.…”

Section: Electricitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconstruction of global gridded monthly sectoral water withdrawals for 1971–2010 and analysis of their spatiotemporal patterns

Huang¹,

Hejazi²,

Li³

et al. 2017

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20Human water withdrawal has increasingly altered the global water cycle in past decades, yet our understanding of its driving forces and patterns is limited. Reported historical estimates of sectoral water withdrawals are often sparse and incomplete, mainly restricted to water withdrawal estimates available at annual and country scale, due to a lack of observations at local and seasonal time scales. In this study, through collecting and consolidating various sources of reported data and developing spatial and temporal statistical downscaling algorithms, we reconstruct a global monthly gridded (0.5 degree) sectoral water 25 withdrawal dataset for the period 1971-2010, which distinguishes six water use sectors, i.e. irrigation, domestic, electricity generation (cooling of thermal power plants), livestock, mining, and manufacturing. Based on the reconstructed dataset, the spatial and temporal patterns of historical water withdrawal are analyzed. Results show that global total water withdrawal has increased significantly during 1971-2010, mainly driven by the increase of irrigation water withdrawal. Regions with high water withdrawal are those densely populated or with large irrigated cropland production, e.g., the United States (US), eastern 30 China, India, and Europe. Seasonally, irrigation water withdrawal in summer for the major crops contributes a large percentage of annual total irrigation water withdrawal in mid and high-latitude regions, and the dominant season of irrigation water withdrawal is also different across regions. Domestic water withdrawal is mostly characterized by a summer peak, while water Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2017-551 Manuscript under review for journal Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discussion started: 15 September 2017 c Author(s) 2017. CC BY 4.0 License.2 withdrawal for electricity generation has a winter peak in high-latitude regions and a summer peak in low-latitude regions. Despite the overall increasing trend, irrigation in the western US and domestic water withdrawal in western Europe exhibit a decreasing trend. Our results highlight the distinct spatial pattern of human water use by sectors at the seasonal and annual scales. The reconstructed gridded water withdrawal dataset is open-access, and can be used for examining issues related to water withdrawals at fine spatial, temporal and sectoral scales.

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Section: Electricitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconstruction of global gridded monthly sectoral water withdrawals for 1971–2010 and analysis of their spatiotemporal patterns

Huang¹,

Hejazi²,

Li³

et al. 2017

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“…21) [101]. The 1970s and 1980s have seen a major booming of PSP construction, in the South-West of the country (Fig.…”

Section: Austriamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…14% of its current total capacity [102]), thus explaining a surge in the decision to favor PSP for integration of electricity for variable generation technologies in the 2010s [103]. It is also a strongly hydropower-dominated electricity system, one of the highest in Europe (66% [101], of which about a third consists of PSP).…”

Section: Austriamentioning

confidence: 99%

Study of the drivers and asset management of pumped-storage power plants historical and geographical perspective

Guittet

Capezzali

Gaudard

et al. 2016

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“…Today, there are about 6000 existing or planned large hydropower dams (>15 m height) worldwide (Zarfl et al 2014) and an uncountable number of small dams. For example, with more than 5000 mostly small hydropower plants, Austria is one of the countries with the highest density of hydropower dams (about 6 dams per 100 km 2 , Wagner et al 2015). Downstream flows are mainly altered by large dams, e.g., there are 654 reservoirs with storage capacities !0.5 km 3 (Lehner and Döll 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%