Cooperation or rivalry? Impact of alternative development pathways on India’s long-term electricity generation and associated water demands

Chaturvedi, Vaibhav; Koti, Poonam Nagar; Sugam, Rudresh; Neog, Kangkanika; Hejazi, Mohamad

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2019.116708

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“…Even with strict water regulations limiting water withdrawals to 3.5 m 3 /MWh for old power plants, and 2.5 m 3 /MWh for post-2017 new power plants (MoEFCC 2015), Luo et al (2018) found that the country continued to be at risk of power outages. Although 99 percent of the water withdrawn may be returned to rivers and lakes and become available for use, water consumption within the power plants remains significant (Chaturvedi et al 2017;Luo et al 2018). Luo et al (2018) estimated water consumption by a thermal power plant as 2.1 billion cubic meters in 2016.…”

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“…These norms would help enforce greater transparency and resource management. However, these values have not been publicly disclosed yet, and so we use the India-specific water consumption estimates provided by Chaturvedi et al (2017) for fossil-fuel-based power plants and Luo et al (2018b) and IRENA and WRI (2018) for the different RE technologies. These values are listed in Table B1.…”

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“…Notes: VSL = value of statistical life.Sources: OECD 2012; Majumder and Madheswaran 2018; Cropper et al 2019.Notes: m 3 /MWh = cubic meters per megawatt-hour; SHP = small hydro power. Sources:Chaturvedi et al 2017; IRENA and WRI 2018. …”

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“…For the coal fuel cycle, we use opencast mining data as more than 93% of Indian coal mining falls within this category [117]. The power plant operational water use data is taken from [118] and [119]. As nearly 90% of Indian coal power plants use recirculating cooling tower systems [119], we base our assessment on the water footprint of this cooling technology.…”

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An Integrated Comparative Assessment of Coal-Based Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Vis-à-Vis Renewable Energies in India’s Low Carbon Electricity Transition Scenarios

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Roadmaps for India’s energy future foresee that coal power will continue to play a considerable role until the middle of the 21st century. Among other options, carbon capture and storage (CCS) is being considered as a potential technology for decarbonising the power sector. Consequently, it is important to quantify the relative benefits and trade-offs of coal-CCS in comparison to its competing renewable power sources from multiple sustainability perspectives. In this paper, we assess coal-CCS pathways in India up to 2050 and compare coal-CCS with conventional coal, solar PV and wind power sources through an integrated assessment approach coupled with a nexus perspective (energy-cost-climate-water nexus). Our levelized costs assessment reveals that coal-CCS is expensive and significant cost reductions would be needed for CCS to compete in the Indian power market. In addition, although carbon pricing could make coal-CCS competitive in relation to conventional coal power plants, it cannot influence the lack of competitiveness of coal-CCS with respect to renewables. From a climate perspective, CCS can significantly reduce the life cycle GHG emissions of conventional coal power plants, but renewables are better positioned than coal-CCS if the goal is ambitious climate change mitigation. Our water footprint assessment reveals that coal-CCS consumes an enormous volume of water resources in comparison to conventional coal and, in particular, to renewables. To conclude, our findings highlight that coal-CCS not only suffers from typical new technology development related challenges—such as a lack of technical potential assessments and necessary support infrastructure, and high costs—but also from severe resource constraints (especially water) in an era of global warming and the competition from outperforming renewable power sources. Our study, therefore, adds a considerable level of techno-economic and environmental nexus specificity to the current debate about coal-based large-scale CCS and the low carbon energy transition in emerging and developing economies in the Global South.

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“…The present study considers the only freshwater sourced power plants for the water demand assessment. Seawater does not influence the fresh surface water stress and the technologies such as dry cooling and cooling ponds are very limited (Chaturvedi et al, 2017) in use in India and thus have not been included in this study. On the other hand, due to the paucity of fuel transportation data, the present study does not consider this component.…”

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Assessment of regional water demand for coal-based power plants in India: exploring its regional impact on other cross-sectoral water stress

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the total water supply to the sector was withdrawn by power plants. Further, the study assessed its tradeoff with other sectoral water demand adopting WSI (Water Stress Index) criteria for both surface and groundwater sources. The results highlighted the per capita groundwater to be under severe stress and similar status was also identified in the case of fresh surface water except for the Central region. The overall WSI status was found to be severe in all regions of India. This situation creates a water-scarce situation for water-guzzling power plants that are dependent on surface water and faces the competitive situation with the agriculture and domestic sector. Results of the study concluded that the technological up-gradation at the power plants could be helpful to reduce the total water demand by 78% of coal power sector which can be reduced the severity of regional water stress. Our study aids policymakers to identify the region which is more vulnerable in terms of crosssectoral water demand and also fulfills the need for quality data availability at a regional scale that may use in the future towards sustainable water-resources management practices.

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Cooperation or rivalry? Impact of alternative development pathways on India’s long-term electricity generation and associated water demands

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Sustainable Development Impacts of Renewable Power: Insights from Three Indian States

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Assessment of regional water demand for coal-based power plants in India: exploring its regional impact on other cross-sectoral water stress

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