Water pipes hold flood of untapped electricity potential
Further, as water infrastructure ages and need replaced, that upgrade can include some power generation potential."Tapping conduit hydropower from water distribution systems can be a sustainable long-term water and energy supply solution," the ORNL team said.
But ORNL's study didn't focus on specific locations and"may not identify accurate site-specific opportunities that are more suitable to support further feasibility assessments and investment decisions."Toss in a lack of public awareness and a dearth of"consistent and equitable incentives compared with other renewable resources," and you have a recipe for a technology that goes unnoticed despite its potential benefits.
ORNL said that there's yet another reason to consider getting conduit hydroelectric generators plugged into grids: the 1.41GW figure is probably way lower than the actual potential. "The authors attempted to incorporate a variety of data and approaches to estimate the national conduit hydropower potentials, but the significant data gaps still represent a major hurdle to capturing the full resource potential," the researchers said.
"Given these uncounted opportunities" – which ORNL said includes self-supplied water withdrawals, incorrect coordinates on maps used for estimates, and other things unmeasurable in a broad study like this –"there could be more conduit hydropower than … estimated in this study." ®
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