Impacts of recent drought and warm years on water resources and electricity supply worldwide

Recent droughts and heatwaves showed the vulnerability of the electricity sector to surface water constraints with reduced potentials for thermoelectric power and hydropower generation in different regions. Here we use a global hydrological-electricity modelling framework to quantify the impacts of...

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Main Authors: Michelle T H van Vliet, Justin Sheffield, David Wiberg, Eric F Wood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2016-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/12/124021