Marginal costs of water savings from cooling system retrofits: a case study for Texas power plants

The water demands of power plant cooling systems may strain water supply and make power generation vulnerable to water scarcity. Cooling systems range in their rates of water use, capital investment, and annual costs. Using Texas as a case study, we examined the cost of retrofitting existing coal an...

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Main Authors: Aviva Loew, Paulina Jaramillo, Haibo Zhai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2016-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/104004