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Enabling Energy-Water Resilience Through Testbeds for Scalable Atmospheric Water Harvesting Across Domestic, Building, and Manufacturing Applications
This white paper outlines a coordinated testbed and modeling framework to evaluate atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) as an energy?water resilience strategy across domestic, building, and manufacturing applications. By benchmarking real-world AWH performance against thermodynamic ...
Fisk, P., and Herckes, P.
Revolutionizing Water-Energy Infrastructure Resilience through Distributed Sensing and Digital Twins
This white paper addresses the intersection of Water for Energy and Energy for Water, proposing foundational technology to enhance the resilience and operational longevity of critical national assets, including hydropower facilities and marine energy systems.
The core challenge i...
Luo, L.
Accelerating the Acquisition of Irrigation Modernization Benefits
Accelerating the modernization of off-farm irrigation water delivery infrastructure can hasten the acquisition of many energy-water benefits: water and energy conservation, energy generation and grid reliability, and additional water conservation and increased agricultural yields ...
Jorgensen, J., Saulsbury, B., Cafferty, K., Golden, B., Kueny, K., Hou, H., and Niazi, H.
Process Design and Optimization for Wastewater Treatment Efficiency and Resilience
This white paper explores the benefits of using digital twins and mathematical programming techniques to optimize energy consumption in wastewater treatment processes, thereby enhancing resilience and efficiency. Key challenges faced by current facilities include high energy consu...
Rawlings, E., Klise, K., and Gunter, D.
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.
Hardening Forested Watersheds to Wildfire to Enhance Downstream Water Quality for Critical Energy Infrastructure
This white paper focuses on water-for-energy stability, emphasizing the risks to energy infrastructure from water quality impacts due to severely burned forested watersheds. The primary challenge is that energy production in the U.S. is vulnerable to surface water quality, with hi...
Crockett, J., and Krofcheck, D.
Forecast-Informed, Market-Responsive Conjunctive Operations for Multi-Reservoir Water-Energy Systems
The white paper, "Forecast-Informed, Market-Responsive Conjunctive Operations for Multi-Reservoir Water-Energy Systems" , addresses the water-for-energy and energy-for-water nexus by proposing a framework for co-optimizing hydropower and cascading reservoir operations alongside fl...
Pavicevic, M., Mork, E., Yu, A., Herman, J., Emmons, J., and Ploussard, Q.
Regional Energy and Water Resilience Strategies for Critical Thermoelectric Power Generation and Data Center Technologies
This white paper discusses strategies for improving water management in thermoelectric power plants and data centers by focusing on the reclamation and management of cooling water. The primary goal is to efficiently close the water cycle by processing discharged cooling water to r...
Rigby, A., and Wilson, A.
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.
Harnessing water system flexibility for grid resilience
With new critical infrastructure that require uninterrupted power supplies (such as data centers that support the AI boom) and a rising share of intermittent generation sources on the grid, there is a growing need for flexibility in grid resources which can ramp up or down quickly...
Szinai, J., and Callaway, D.