Vulnerability of hydropower projects to climate change

Harrison, Gareth; Whittington, H. W.

doi:10.1049/ip-gtd:20020173

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“…Thermal power plant vulnerability can be reduced by utilizing alternative water sources, such as municipal wastewater, or by utilizing a dry-cooling system, yet there are cost, performance and availability trade-offs and constraints (EPRI, 2003;Gadhamshetty et al, 2006). Reservoirs and river levels may also be affected by climate change, altering water availability and hydropower performance capabilities and output (Harrison and Whittington, 2002;IPCC, 2008). Electricity generation units can affect water quality through thermal and chemical pollution.…”

Section: Watermentioning

confidence: 99%

Renewable Energy in the Context of Sustainable Development

Sathaye¹,

Lucon²,

Rahman³

et al. 2011

Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation

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Section: Watermentioning

confidence: 99%

Renewable Energy in the Context of Sustainable Development

Sathaye¹,

Lucon²,

Rahman³

et al. 2011

Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation

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“…In this context, the analysis of the impact of land-use and climate changes on river hydrology and surface water availability can be addressed by means of spatially distributed rainfall-runoff model applications (Harrison & Whittington, 2002;Eckhardt & Ulbrich, 2003;Haverkamp et al, 2005). Well-known models that are commonly applied at the basin scale are the Hydrologic Simulation Package Fortran (HSPF; Holtan & Lopez, 1971), the Système Hydrologique Européen (SHE; Abbott et al, 1986a,b), the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT; Arnold et al, 1998) and the Hydrologic Engineering Centre Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC-HMS; HEC, 2000), amongst others.…”

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Hydrological modelling with SWAT under conditions of limited data availability: evaluation of results from a Chilean case study

Stehr

Debels

Romero

et al. 2008

Hydrological Sciences Journal

149

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The Biobío River basin is of high strategic importance for Chilean development, at both the regional and the national levels. For this reason, advances in the general understanding of, and in the capacity to describe and predict, in a spatially explicit way, the impact of climate and anthropogenic forcing on the hydrology of the Biobío basin are urgently needed. The work presented here attempts to set the basis for future modelling applications within the Biobío basin by analysing the applicability of a readily available modelling tool, the SWAT model, to one of its sub-basins. Modelling results show that the model performs well in most parts of the study basin. The SWAT model application for the Vergara basin confirms that SWAT is a useful tool and can already be used to make a preliminary assessments of the potential impacts of land-use and climate changes on basin hydrology.Key words hydrological modelling; SWAT; calibration; Chile; Biobío Modélisation hydrologique avec SWAT en conditions de données peu disponibles: évaluation des résultats d'une application au ChiliRésumé Les eaux du bassin du Biobío sont d'une importance stratégique pour le développement du Chili, au niveau régional comme au niveau national. Pour cette raison, il est urgent d'avancer dans la compréhension générale de l'hydrologie du bassin, afin de pouvoir décrire et prévoir, d'une manière spatialement explicite, l'impact du forçage climatique et anthropique. Le travail présenté ici prétend établir la base pour les futurs efforts de modélisation du bassin du Biobío, en analysant l'applicabilité d'un outil de modélisation existant, le modèle SWAT, à un de ses sous-bassins. Les résultats indiquent que le modèle a une bonne performance dans la presque totalité du bassin étudié. L'application du modèle SWAT au bassin de Vergara confirme qu'il est un outil utile, qui peut d'ores et déjà être utilisé pour faire des évaluations préliminaires des impacts potentiels des changements d'occupation du sol et de climat sur l'hydrologie du bassin.

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“…Hydroclimate models can be used to understand glacier and snowmelt dynamics (Huss et al, 2008;Jonsdottir, 2008;Schaefli et al, 2007;Johannesson, 2006), but they can also be linked with energy market models to understand financial and technical feasibility; economic vulnerability to climate change (Cherry et al, 2005b;Harrison et al, 2003;Harrison and Whittington, 2002); and they can provide a methodological approach to understand tradeoffs (Rheinheimer et al, 2013). Because getting to detailed, precise information at the watershed scale requires intensive effort and significant computing power, these methods have mostly been applied to case studies of particular basins (Bennett et al, 2012;Shrestha et al, 2012 in the Far North).…”

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Planning for climate change impacts on hydropower in the Far North

Cherry

Knapp

Trainor

et al. 2017

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract. Unlike much of the contiguous United States, new hydropower development continues in the Far North, where climate models project precipitation will likely increase over the next century. Regional complexities in the Arctic and subArctic, such as glacier recession and permafrost thaw, however, introduce uncertainties about the hydrologic responses to climate change that impact water resource management. This work reviews hydroclimate changes in the Far North and their impacts on hydropower; it provides a template for application of current techniques for prediction and estimating uncertainty, and it describes best practices for integrating science into management and decision-making. The growing number of studies on hydrologic impacts suggests that information resulting from climate change science has matured enough that it can and should be integrated into hydropower scoping, design, and management. Continuing to ignore the best available information in lieu of status quo planning is likely to prove costly to society in the long term.

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Vulnerability of hydropower projects to climate change

Cited by 34 publications

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Renewable Energy in the Context of Sustainable Development

Renewable Energy in the Context of Sustainable Development

Hydrological modelling with SWAT under conditions of limited data availability: evaluation of results from a Chilean case study

Planning for climate change impacts on hydropower in the Far North

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