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Joint modeling of water and energy for resilience and flexibility
The white paper focuses on the intersection of energy and potable water systems through joint modeling to enhance resilience, flexibility, and operational efficiency. The paper identifies the lack of integrated modeling tools as the primary obstacle in managing interconnected wate...
Chini, C., Thomas, M., Bixler, T., and Cejudo, C.
Promoting Energy-Water Nexus Understanding: Education and Workforce
This white paper discusses the development of educational and workforce programs focused on the energy-water nexus, aiming to enhance energy and water resilience by promoting multidisciplinary skills essential for managing robust energy-water systems.
There is a significant gap i...
Atkinson, T., and Cafferty, K.
Aquifer Storage as a Core Strategy for Energy-Water Resilience: Near and Long-Term Development Across U.S. Regions
This research area primarily addresses the "Energy for Water" focus area. Depleted aquifers pose serious economic liabilities if left as is, however, they are a core asset for long term water storage throughout the US. Current efforts to store surface water, while successful are s...
Ulrich, C., Nico, P., Arora, B., Zhang, Y., Singhal, A., Robinson, G., and Stokes-Draut, J.
Unlocking Small-scale Hydropower using Water Infrastructure for National Energy Security
Reliable local energy generation and long-duration energy storage are critical to balancing peak demands and providing distributed emergency backup near both urban and rural populations. However, small-scale (< 10 MW) hydropower faces barriers, including siting, permitting, water ...
Stokes-Draut, J., Taylor, M., and Rao, P.
Advancing Industrial Sector Water Management for Energy Recovery in Water Supply, In-Process, and Discharge Systems
This paper addresses both water-for-energy and energy-for-water by integrating hydropower generation to improve industrial water system resilience. Conduit hydropower is produced by capturing flowing water under pressure in closed-pipe systems and converting the energy into usable...
Bhandari, I., Billings, B., DeNeale, S., Chu, A., and Meira, K.
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.
Optimizing Hydropower Operations through Basin-Scale Coordination for Energy-Water Resilience
This white paper aligns with the Water for Energy focal area and advances energy-water resilience through basin-scale coordination of hydropower operations. It outlines a transition from top-down management approaches to bottom-up, stakeholder-driven approach to improve hydropower...
Davis, L., Corsair, H., Ossa, D., and Nachman, M.
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.
Agentic Optimization for Resilience in Hydropower Reservoir Systems
The growing electricity demand in the U.S. requires a resilient energy strategy. Hydropower is a major component of that strategy but is subject to environmental and human stressors that impact its dependability. AI-driven reinforcement learning, called "Agentic" learning, presen...
Schwenk, J., Garcia-Cardona, C., Bennett, K., Singh, S., and Brelsford, C.
Water Treatment and Valorization of Mine Byproducts in the Western US
This white paper highlights the critical role of water management in the mining and mineral processing sectors, particularly concerning the reclamation and treatment of water used in extracting essential materials for next-generation energy technologies and national security syste...
Wilson, A.