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Seeking the optimal strategy of a multi-reservoir system is an important approach to develop hydropower energy, in …
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Optimal load distribution (OLD) among generator units of a hydropower plant is a vital task for hydropower generation …. However, many practical constraints on hydropower plant operation are very difficult, if not impossible, to be modeled, and … multiple optimal solutions exist for the case study of China’s Geheyan hydropower plant, and they are valuable for assessing …
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Currently, hydropower accounts for close to 16% of the world’s total power supply and is the world’s most dominant (86 …%) source of renewable electrical energy. The key resource for hydropower generation is runoff, which is dependent on … precipitation. The future global climate is uncertain and thus poses some risk for the hydropower generation sector. The crucial …
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The international diffusion of environmental innovations is getting increasing attention as an opportunity to improve competitiveness. Especially in the energy sector, countries use policy support to this end. A recent goal in this context is the formation of “lead markets”, which represents...
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the current electricity generation mix is primarily hydropower based, high-quality dam sites are diminishing and … by environmental tradeoffs in the use of large-scale renewables, questioning the use tropical hydropower and highlighting …
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Irrigated agriculture has the potential to alter regional to global climate significantly. We investigate how irrigation will affect regional climate in the future in an inland irrigation area of northern China, focusing on its effects on heat fluxes and near-surface temperature. Using the...
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The wetland ecosystem in the “Three-River Headwaters” (TRH) region plays an irreplaceable role in water source conservation, run-off adjustment and biodiversity maintenance. In recent years, assessment of wetland resources affected by climate changes has aroused enormous attention, since it...
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This study investigates the impacts of climate change on energy requirements in the Mediterranean. Energy requirements, especially for space heating and cooling, are closely linked to several weather variables, mainly air temperature. The analysis is based on daily temperature outputs from...
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Climate change has a large impact on water resources and thus on hydropower. Hydroelectric power generation is closely …, namely 2021–2030 and 2051–2060, using a special hydropower module coupled with the physically-based hydrological model PROMET … regional differences within the Upper Danube basin, three hydropower plants at individual locations were selected. Inter …
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Built environment carbon reduction strategies materialize predominantly in city-level greenhouse gas (GHG) management, where new residential development appears as one of the key instruments. However, city-level assessments are often incapable of producing data at a community or neighborhood...
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