Climate impacts on hydropower in Colombia: A multi-model assessment of power sector adaptation pathways

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العنوان: Climate impacts on hydropower in Colombia: A multi-model assessment of power sector adaptation pathways
المؤلفون: Bob van der Zwaan, Santiago Arango-Aramburo, Germán D. Romero-Otalora, Mohamad Hejazi, Kathryn Daenzer, Andrés C. Álvarez-Espinosa, Tom Kober, Sean W. D. Turner, Juan Pablo Ríos-Ocampo
المساهمون: Sustainable Chemistry Energy (HIMS, FNWI)
المصدر: Energy Policy, 128, 179-188. Elsevier
Energy Policy, 128, 179-188
بيانات النشر: Elsevier BV, 2019.
سنة النشر: 2019
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mains electricity, General equilibrium theory, Hydropower generation, Energy Efficiency, Natural resource economics, 020209 energy, Energy / Geological Survey Netherlands, Climate change, 02 engineering and technology, 010501 environmental sciences, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 01 natural sciences, Energy-water nexus, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Electricity supply, Hydropower, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Wind power, Water-energy nexus, business.industry, Partial equilibrium, Energy modeling, General Energy, Environmental science, business
الوصف: Climate change is likely to affect water availability and therefore hydropower generation in many regions of the world. In drying regions, hydropower generation may be impaired, creating a need for new power investments that would otherwise have been unnecessary. In this study we apply two partial equilibrium models (GCAM and TIAM-ECN) and two general equilibrium models (MEG4C and Phoenix) to identify possible pathways of power sector adaptation for Colombia under climate change. We adopt two GCM projections that deteriorate hydropower generation over the next three decades, and simulate each for two radiative forcing scenarios (RCP8.5 and RCP4.5). Relative to Colombia's projected power demand growth over the coming decades, losses in hydropower generation are marginal. Nonetheless, climate-driven losses in hydropower must be compensated by alternative technologies´expansion, which vary significantly across models. When climate policy is implemented (RCP4.5), three distinct expansion pathways emerge: increased solar and wind energy (TIAM-ECN); significant power demand reductions (Phoenix and MEG4C); and increased fossil resources with carbon dioxide capture and storage (GCAM). We show the need to explore the tradeoffs/synergies among alternative expansion pathways and their potential impacts on other sectors (e.g. water and land), and for effective policies to incentivize their adoption in Colombia.
وصف الملف: application/pdf
تدمد: 0301-4215
الوصول الحر: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::d6719d2e7405c24396692089ec95d1edTest
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2018.12.057Test
حقوق: OPEN
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi.dedup.....d6719d2e7405c24396692089ec95d1ed
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE