July 12th, 2023
Via Energy Daily, a look at how climate change is challenging hydropower-dependent Austria: High in the Austrian Alps, hundreds of construction workers toil in a huge underground project aimed at storing hydropower as climate change has reduced the country’s water-dependent electricity production.Austria draws more than 60 percent of its electricity output from the renewable energy […]
Read more »Angola: Water Under the Bridge
July 4th, 2023
Via The Business Year, a look at Angola’s hydropower potential: In Angola, hydropower is a crucial source of renewable energy, representing around 70% of total installed capacity. Could hydropower and the Angolan example help bridge the gap to net zero? Over recent years, more and more members of the global club of nations have adopted […]
Read more »May 30th, 2023
Courtesy of The Land Desk, commentary on the watergy impacts of the Lower Basin states’ Colorado River deal: 2. The second point Ann made was that moving water from the Colorado River to fields and cities takes a lot of energy, including the power generated by the dams on the Colorado River. So when irrigators […]
Read more »Colorado Frackers Doubled Freshwater Use During Megadrought
May 23rd, 2023
Via Inside Climate News, a report on how oil and gas operators dramatically increased their reliance on high-quality water for fracking even though they produced enough wastewater to supply their operations: In the middle of the longest-running drought in more than a thousand years, Colorado energy companies diverted rising volumes of the state’s freshwater resources […]
Read more »May 14th, 2023
Via Big Pivots, a look at Colorado’s exploration of the pairing of solar panels with canals and reservoirs to see if integrating solar into agriculture may help solve the San Luis Valley’s water woes: Agrivoltaics—the marriage of solar photovoltaics and agriculture production— has been filtering into public consciousness, if still more as an abstraction than as […]
Read more »Why Is Water Critical For Energy Production?
April 27th, 2023
Via SIWI, an article on the watergy nexus: Water plays a critical but often overlooked role in energy production. In a webinar on 16 February, SIWI will explain how a focus on water can help us build more resilient and climate smart energy systems. Here SIWI’s Josh Weinberg presents a background. In a series of […]
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