Water Impacts of High Solar PV Electricity Penetration

Jordan Macknick; Stuart Cohen

doi:10.2172/1225894

Water Impacts of High Solar PV Electricity Penetration

Jordan Macknick, Stuart Cohen

Strategic Energy Analysis Center

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Abstract

Water availability and usage is an important concern for the energy sector. In some cases, the dependence on water for thermal electric power plant cooling has been a vulnerability and has led to power plants curtailing generation (e.g. Brown's Ferry nuclear power plant in the summer of 2007, among others). Solar power technologies also require water to varying degrees throughout their life cycle.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/1225894
State	Published - 2015

NREL Publication Number

NREL/TP-6A20-63011

Keywords

solar power
thermal electric power plants
water dependency

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