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Co-Development Opportunities Between Hydropower and Municipal Water and Wastewater Infrastructures
This white paper outlines opportunities to modernize U.S. water-energy infrastructure through co-development of hydropower with municipal water and wastewater systems. It highlights the untapped potential of integrating hydropower generation into new and existing water supply proj...
Chu, A., and DeNeale, S.
Energy-Water Resiliency for Drinking Water and Wastewater Treatment
This white paper focuses on water treatment operational flexibility, technoeconomic analyses, real-time modeling and control, modular systems, and resource recovery.
Challenges include municipal water and wastewater services are large energy users; underestimation of energy and w...
Struck, S., Boren, B., and Hardikar, M.
Aligning Bytes with Basins to Promote Data Center Growth in the U.S.
This white paper examines the water-energy tradeoffs of U.S. data-center expansion, highlighting how cooling choices, power sourcing, and siting decisions shape local water security, grid resilience, and watershed sustainability. The study focuses on integrating direct (on-site po...
Siddik, M., Turner, S., and Chinthavali, S.
Operational Flexibility for Integrated Energy-Water Resilience
This white paper focuses on advancing operational flexibility as a pathway to integrated energy-water resilience. It addresses the persistent fragmentation between water and energy systems, where separate regulatory, operational, and investment frameworks limit co-optimization and...
Jackson, N., and Rao, N.
An Energy-Water Nexus Foundation Model Ecosystem to Advance System Resiliency and Affordability
This white paper presents how an AI-driven foundation model ecosystem for hydropower and the electric grid, integrated with a large language model (LLM) agent can address the "Water for Energy" challenge and modernize coordinated planning and operations of the U.S. energy-water ne...
Kwon, J., Kim, K., Levin, T., and Botterud, A.
Integrated Water-Energy Resilience Research and Testbeds
Water availability increasingly constrains the reliability and flexibility of water-dependent energy systems, including hydropower, thermoelectric generation, and grid operations. Hydrologic extremes, shifting demand, aging infrastructure, and cross-sector pressures are intensifyi...
Negron-Juarez, R., Amusat, O., Koven, C., and Viers, J.
Material Science Driven Water Technology Innovation
The white paper explores multiple Energy-Water Resilience (EWR) topics, including water for energy, energy for water, and their intersections. It proposes low-cost, scalable water-based material processes to advance water technologies through materials innovation. The existing cha...
Chang, C., and Ajami, N.
Hybrid Bioenergy and Hydropower Systems: Leveraging Heterogeneous Biomass and Wastes from Watersheds
Sandia National Laboratories and Idaho National Laboratory (INL) explore the water-for-energy nexus in this white paper, focusing on the impact of heterogeneous watershed waste materials on hydropower facilities. They identify key challenges--such as pile burning, wildfires, and d...
Quiroz-Arita, C., and Paudel, R.
Continuous Reservoir Sedimentation Management: Cost-Effective Hydrosuction Dredging Demonstration at John Redmond Reservoir, Kansas
The focal area of this whitepaper is water for energy & energy for water: Advancing cost and energy-efficient reservoir sedimentation management operations through hydrosuction dredging technology, sustained by leveraging an existing adjacent grid or developing integrated microgri...
Lee, J., Shelley, J., Hansen, C., Chu, A., and Olson, J.
Gaps Between Western U.S. Reservoir Inflows and Headwater Precipitation Timing, Amount, and Phase
Snowmelt from mountain headwater basins supplies approximately 80% of the runoff to reservoirs in the western United States (WUS), and is therefore a key component of western hydropower. Yet predicting runoff from hydrometeorological data in complex terrain (and its sensitivity to...
Rudisill, W., and Feldman, D.