Nationwide water availability data for energy-water modeling

Tidwell, Vincent Carroll; Zemlick, Katie; Klise, Geoffrey Taylor

doi:10.2172/1121917

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“…The water rights supply curve was developed at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) by Tidwell et al [17]. Though the legal definition of water rights applies only in certain western states, "water rights" is used throughout this analysis as a functional definition, where a quantity of available rights represents the amount of water available for use by new generating capacity, and a rights cost represents the capital investment required to access the water.…”

Section: Methodology the Regional Energy Deployment System (Reeds) Momentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling Climate-Water Impacts on Electricity Sector Capacity Expansion

Cohen

Averyt

Macknick

et al. 2014

Volume 2: Simple and Combined Cycles; Advanced Energy Systems and Renewables (Wind, Solar and Geothermal); Energy Water Nexus;

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Climate change has the potential to exacerbate water availability concerns for thermal power plant cooling, which is responsible for 41% of U.S. water withdrawals. This analysis describes an initial link between climate, water, and electricity systems using the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) electricity system capacity expansion model. Average surface water projections from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 3 (CMIP3) data are applied to surface water rights available to new generating capacity in ReEDS, and electric sector growth is compared with and without climate-influenced water rights. The mean climate projection has only a small impact on national or regional capacity growth and water use because most regions have sufficient unappropriated or previously retired water rights to offset climate impacts. Climate impacts are notable in southwestern states, which experience reduced water rights purchases and a greater share of rights acquired from wastewater and other higher-cost water resources. The electric sector climate impacts demonstrated herein establish a methodology to be later exercised with more extreme climate scenarios and a more rigorous representation of legal and physical water availability.

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Section: Methodology the Regional Energy Deployment System (Reeds) Momentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling Climate-Water Impacts on Electricity Sector Capacity Expansion

Cohen

Averyt

Macknick

et al. 2014

Volume 2: Simple and Combined Cycles; Advanced Energy Systems and Renewables (Wind, Solar and Geothermal); Energy Water Nexus;

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“…Water availability and cost are defined using supply curves developed by Tidwell, Zemlick, and Klise (2013). Resource assessment methodologies are unique to each water category as detailed in that report as well as by Macknick et al (2015).…”

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“…45 Unappropriated freshwater is fresh surface water not previously assigned by a prior rights or access agreement. Appropriated freshwater is fresh surface water where water rights are presently owned, but the resource has been identified by Tidwell et al (2013) as low-value and thus potentially available for sale to the power sector. Groundwater is defined as fresh or brackish based on salinity, with brackish groundwater typically deeper underground and more expensive to access.…”

Section: Cooling Water Availability and Costmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This method implicitly assumes that known historical generation accounts for any historical constraints on generation due to limited water availability. When new capacity and associated water access are purchased, total water availability is updated by adding purchased amounts from the Tidwell et al (2013) supply curves. Annual quantities of unappropriated freshwater are distributed seasonally using the 2010 seasonal distribution, and all other water categories are assumed available uniformly throughout the year (Cohen et al [in review]).…”

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Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) Model Documentation: Version 2018

Cohen

Becker

Bielen

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AcknowledgmentsWe gratefully acknowledge the many people whose efforts contributed to this report. The ReEDS modeling and analysis team at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) was active in developing and testing the ReEDS model v.2018. We also acknowledge the vast number of current and past NREL employees on and beyond the ReEDS team who have participated in data and model development, testing, and analysis. We are especially grateful to Walter Short who first envisioned and developed the Wind Deployment System (WinDS) and ReEDS models. We thank for their comments and improvements on successive versions of this report. Finally, we are grateful to all those who helped sponsor ReEDS model development and analysis, particularly supporters from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) but also others who have funded our work over the years.

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“…Building on the fundamental water supply curve, this effort utilized spatially resolved information about Arizona's brackish water resources to estimate viable supplies suitable for water treatment based on the quantity, quality, and depth of the brackish water resource. Utilizing data from 84 watershed units in Arizona recently developed and analyzed for beneficial use, this effort could examine cost and availability profiles of treating brackish water resources in each region (Tidwell et al 2013;Tidwell et al 2014). 24 , 25 Arizona has close to 3,000,000 AFY of recoverable brackish water resources, with total dissolved solids measurements ranging from 1,000 to 8,000 mg/l and depths ranging from 100 to 1,000 feet.…”

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The Economic Potential of Two Nuclear-Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems

Ruth

Cutler

Flores-Espino

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Cover Photos: (left to right) PIX 04135, iStock 22779761, PIX 16933., PIX 15648, PIX 08466, PIX 21205 NREL prints on paper that contains recycled content.iii This report is available at no cost from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at www.nrel.gov/publications. PrefaceChanges are occurring throughout the U.S. economy, especially in regards to how energy is generated and used in the electricity, buildings, industrial, and transportation sectors. These changes are being driven by environmental and energy security concerns and by economics. The electric-sector market share of natural gas and variable renewable generation, such as wind and solar photovoltaics (PV), continues to grow. The buildings sector is evolving to meet efficiency standards, the transportation sector is evolving to meet efficiency and renewable fuels standards, and the industrial sector is evolving to reduce emissions. Those changes are driving investment and utilization strategies for generation and other assets.Nuclear and renewable energy sources are important to consider in the energy sector's evolution because both are considered to be clean and non-carbon emitting energy sources. The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are jointly investigating potential synergies between technologies exploiting nuclear and renewable energy sources. The two laboratories have held several joint workshops since 2011. Those workshops brought together experts in both areas to identify synergies and potential opportunities to work together. Workshop participants identified nuclear-renewable hybrid energy systems (N-R HESs) as one of the opportunities and recommended investigating whether N-R HESs could both generate dispatchable electricity without carbon emissions and provide clean energy to industrial processes. They also recommended analyzing the potential for N-R HESs to provide dispatchable capacity to a grid with high penetrations of non-dispatchable resources and to investigate whether real inertia provided by thermal power cycles within N-R HESs provides value to the grid. This report is one of a series of reports INL and NREL are producing to investigate the technical and economic aspects of N-R HESs. It provides results of an analysis of two N-R HES scenarios. The first is a Texas-synthetic gasoline scenario that includes four subsystems including a nuclear reactor, thermal power cycle, wind power plant, and synthetic gasoline production technology. The second is an Arizona-desalination scenario with its four subsystems a nuclear reactor, thermal power cycle, PV, and a desalination plant. INL analyzed the technical performance of the same two N-R HESs in a previous report. Future analyses are planned for other N-R HES options.iv private industry, and foreign countries are now developing and demonstrating high temperature nuclear reactors. The main advantage of these reactors is expected to be (1) higher power generation efficiency (up to 50%) and (2) higher temperature for industrial uses.

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Nationwide water availability data for energy-water modeling

Cited by 8 publications

References 12 publications

Modeling Climate-Water Impacts on Electricity Sector Capacity Expansion

Modeling Climate-Water Impacts on Electricity Sector Capacity Expansion

Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) Model Documentation: Version 2018

The Economic Potential of Two Nuclear-Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems

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