November 24th, 2013
Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, an interesting report on the watergy nexus: Water shortages are threatening energy output and increasing costs in some of the world’s most prolific sectors including shale gas in the U.S., crude oil in the Middle East and coal in China, and the situation is set to worsen, Wood Mackenzie […]
Read more »Thirsty Energy: Making the Energy-Water Nexus Work For Us
November 22nd, 2013
Via the Water, Food, and Energy Security Platform, an announcement of a new World Bank initiative: To mitigate the challenges of the nexus, the World Bank Group recently started Thirsty Energy, a global initiative in partnership. Thirsty Energy will contribute to the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative by evaluating trade-offs and synergies between water […]
Read more »November 21st, 2013
Via the Union of Concerned Scientists, a report on the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ recent announcement of an important energy-water resolution: NARUC may not be a household name, but it, as the national body of state public utility commissioners (PUCs), deals with a whole lot of important issues for consumers in every state. […]
Read more »China’s Plan To Cleanup Air May Hurt Water Supply
October 29th, 2013
Via Water Online, a report on the likely water impact of China’s new energy plan: China’s plans for reducing air pollution may inadvertently take a toll on the water supply. China has crafted a sweeping plan to reduce coal use. The goal is to cut coal’s role in energy output from 67 percent in 2012 […]
Read more »October 9th, 2013
Via The New York Times, an article on the watergy challenge: Drought has caused shortages of water for cooling at Martin Lake, a coal-fired plant in East Texas, according to the Department of Energy. WITH so much focus on carbon emitted from the nation’s power plants, another environmental challenge related to electricity generation is sometimes […]
Read more »Watergy Collisions
October 6th, 2013
Via the Union of Concerned Scientists, a look at watergy issues: While a lot of folks are rightly focused on the House-Senate budget collision in D.C. right now, I’ve been thinking (as is my wont) about collisions of a different sort: between power plants and the rivers and lakes they depend on. In both types […]
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