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Open Access
Special Issue
Topic

Water consumption from hydroelectricity

Guest Editor:

        • Abstract Submission Deadline : 30/11/2023

        Manuscript Submission Deadline : 25/12/2023

        [This article belongs to Special Issue Water consumption from hydroelectricity under section ijrec, ijrec in (ijrec, ijrec)]

        Special Issue Description

        Effective management of these resources depends on having a clear understanding of how the energy and water systems interact. Even as droughts and climate change have made concerns regarding reservoir evaporation reactivity more pertinent, improved data availability has made more thorough modeling of hydropower and its water usage possible. This research contributes in three key ways: It provides national and regional estimates of gross evaporation and net evaporation (defined as evaporation less evapotranspiration from local land cover) for U.S. hydroelectricity, making the case that net evaporation is more consistent with other measurements of energy-related water intensity. The approach for estimating system-wide evaporation based on primary purpose allocation is presented and validated, resulting in a two-orders-of-magnitude reduction in the amount of data needed. The whole Penman-Monteith model with numerous integrated sensitivity studies is made available for public use. This model estimates that the U.S. hydropower system uses 1.7 m3 of net freshwater for every GJ of electricity produced.

        Editor Keywords

        Hydroelectricity, Water, Energy systems, Hydropower, Evapotranspiration, Sensitivity analysis, Magnitude, Water intensity, Evaporation

        Manuscript Submission information

        Manuscripts should be submitted online by registering and logging in to this link. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed.
        Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent on email address:[email protected] for announcement on this website.

        Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page.

        Participating journals:

        Journal Name

        International Journal of Renewable Energy and its Commercialization, International Journal of Renewable Energy and its Commercialization

        Abbrivation

        ijrec, ijrec

        ISSN

        2582-4120, 2582-4120

        Since

        2015

        APC

        950  $