University of Groningen
The Dynamics of the Water-Electricity Nexus
Vaca Jiménez, Santiago
DOI:
10.33612/diss.135589228
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Publication date: 2020
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Vaca Jiménez, S. (2020). The Dynamics of the Water-Electricity Nexus: How water availability affects electricity generation and its water consumption. University of Groningen.
https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.135589228
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Propositions belonging to the Thesis:
The dynamics of the Water-Electricity Nexus:
How water availability affects electricity generation and its water consumption Santiago D. Vaca Jiménez
1. Future assessments of a country electricity’s water footprint must include detailed information on the spatial and temporal variations of water availability (whole Thesis).
2. The peer-review process of academic publishing has failed to avoid double counting and misreporting of water-electricity nexus data sources (Chapter 2).
3. Summarizing tables that show water footprints per technology in scientific publications should be avoided as they lack original data (Chapter 2 and 4).
4. Ecuadorian electricity requirements cannot be met solely with hydropower (Chapter 5).
5. Future Sustainable energy supply should not just focus on small water footprints, particularly in the case of hydropower plants (Chapter 6).
6. Open and free satellite images and software such as Google Earth© are making environmental science more transparent (Chapter 4, 5, and 6).
7. Plans are just good ideas that we must be willing to change as we go, the same way as the Ecuadorian energy transition plans need to change to accommodate water requirements. 8. Ecuador zou aanzienlijk kunnen profiteren van het poldermodel, maar het mist de geografische
