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Circular Water-Energy Nexus for Resilient Hydrogen Production via Intelligent Seawater Electrolysis and Real-Time Sensing

This white paper addresses the DOE WPTO focal area of energy-water resilience and circular systems, aligned with the topic of water for energy and energy for water cross-optimization. It proposes a machine-learning-enabled circular water-energy platform that integrates hydrogen pr...

Chen, J., and Xiong, G.

Enabling Energy-Water Resilience in U.S. Data Centers: Water-Aware Grid Planning and Operations with Infrastructure-Compatible Cooling

Rapid, concentrated expansion of AI data centers is reshaping electricity demand profiles, local infrastructure requirements, and regional resource constraints. These facilities are often sized from tens to hundreds of megawatts with multi-gigawatt campus clusters. They are relati...

Zhou, Z., Wu, M., Qiu, F., Muehleisen, R., Zhao, D., Yan, E., and Worek, W.

A Hybrid AI-Optimization Framework for Resilient Hydropower Operations to Support Grid Stability, Extreme Weather Management, and Large-Scale Industrial Loads

This white paper supports a two-stage decision-support framework that links fast, probabilistic inflow forecasts from modern machine learning and generative AI with multistage stochastic optimization for hydropower scheduling. By propagating uncertainty from prediction into operat...

Ploussard, Q., and Feinstein, J.