A5033465634- Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
- Oil and Gas Production Techniques
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Water resources management and optimization
- Cavitation Phenomena in Pumps
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Water Systems and Optimization
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- solar cell performance optimization
- Global Energy Security and Policy
- Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
- Electric Power System Optimization
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2021-2024
University of Virginia
2024
There is not enough water in California to support current uses and preserve healthy environments. aquifers have been systematically depleted over decades, causing household insecurity, degrading groundwater-dependent ecosystems, affecting small medium farmers, inducing subsidence. The government enacted the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act a decade ago prevent declining aquifer levels continue undesirable results, which has driven necessity reduce irrigated agriculture by about half...
Abstract The last decade has seen dramatic growth in solar power. In some regions, the most favorable land for panels is farmland, which often flat and exposed to high levels of irradiance. At same time, agricultural sector faced with growing challenges, notably changing water availability increasingly frequent extreme weather events. combination these trends presents an opportunity a synergistic relationship between agriculture sectors: agrivoltaic systems (AVS). AVS, are placed above...
Abstract Global water systems are facing unprecedented pressures, including climate change‐driven drought and escalating flood risk, environmental contamination, over allocation. Water management governance typically lack integration across spatial scales, relationships between surface ground systems. They also routinely ignore connectivity temporal the need for intergenerational planning. As a global interdisciplinary group of scientists, we seek to highlight how power scale dynamics...
Abstract Integrated water-energy management is crucial for balancing socioeconomic and environmental objectives in multi-reservoir systems. Multipurpose reservoirs support clean energy production, recreation, navigation, flood protection but also disrupt natural water flows fish migration. As hydropower’s role evolves with grid decarbonization, managing these tradeoffs becomes increasingly complex. An integrated model combining economic factors essential to inform how adapt hydropower...
There is not enough water in California to support current uses and preserve healthy environments. aquifers have been systematically depleted over decades, causing household insecurity, degrading groundwater-dependent ecosystems, affecting small medium farmers, inducing subsidence. The government enacted the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act a decade ago prevent declining aquifer levels from continuing cause undesirable results. This law has indirectly driven necessity reduce irrigated...
Hydrologic variability can cause large swings in hydropower generation, inducing significant volatility power sales. Dry years often result low revenues that threaten a supplier's ability to meet its fixed costs, leading budget shortfalls, lower credit ratings, higher interest rates, and, ultimately, rates. This is particularly true for suppliers hydropower-dominated regions, such as the Bonneville administration (BPA). The BPA strategy managing hydrologic financial risk multilayered,...
Reliance on fossil fuels has exacerbated climate change and created geopolitical instability. As seen recently with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, key players in the energy sector often exert outsized influence sovereign states world markets. The ongoing sustainable transition provides an opportunity to these while limiting global warming. Countries have use diplomacy increase diffusion renewable technologies, particularly developing countries. This can both reduce inflated fuel producing...