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{"@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "CreativeWork", "additionalType": "USGS Numbered Series", "name": "Withdrawal and consumption of water by thermoelectric power plants in the United States, 2015", "identifier": [{"@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "USGS Publications Warehouse IndexID", "value": "sir20195103", "url": "https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/sir20195103"}, {"@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "USGS Publications Warehouse Internal ID", "value": 70205449}, {"@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "DOI", "value": "10.3133/sir20195103", "url": "https://doi.org/10.3133/sir20195103"}], "inLanguage": "en", "isPartOf": [{"@type": "CreativeWorkSeries", "name": "Scientific Investigations Report"}], "datePublished": "2019", "dateModified": "2019-10-08", "abstract": "The U.S. Geological Survey has developed models to estimate thermoelectric water use based on linked heat and water budgets. The models produced plant-level withdrawal and consumption estimates using consistent methods for 1,122 water-using, utility-scale thermoelectric power plants in the United States for 2015. Total estimated withdrawal for 2015 was about 103 billion gallons per day (Bgal/d), and total estimated consumption was about 2.7 Bgal/d. Model-estimated withdrawals decreased approximately 26 Bgal/d, or 20 percent, since 2010, and consumption decreased approximately 734 million gallons per day, or 21 percent. The decrease in thermoelectric water use between 2010 and 2015 can be attributed in part to a 7-percent decrease in total thermoelectric utility-scale electricity production, a combination of decreased electricity production and closure of coal-fired plants with once-through cooling systems, and the increase of electricity production at natural gas combined-cycle plants, which are more energy- and water-efficient than conventional thermoelectric plants.", "description": "Report: iv, 15 p.; Data Release", "publisher": {"@type": "Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "author": [{"@type": "Person", "name": "Harris, Melissa A. mharris@usgs.gov", "givenName": "Melissa A.", "familyName": "Harris", "email": "mharris@usgs.gov", "identifier": {"@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "ORCID", "value": "0000-0003-2659-9763", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2659-9763"}, "affiliation": [{"@type": "Organization", "name": "Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/lower-mississippi-gulf-water-science-center"}, {"@type": "Organization", "name": "Tennessee Water Science Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/lower-mississippi-gulf-water-science-center"}]}, {"@type": "Person", "name": "Diehl, Timothy H. thdiehl@usgs.gov", "givenName": "Timothy H.", "familyName": "Diehl", "email": "thdiehl@usgs.gov", "identifier": {"@type": "PropertyValue", "propertyID": "ORCID", "value": "0000-0001-9691-2212", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9691-2212"}, "affiliation": [{"@type": "Organization", "name": "Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/lower-mississippi-gulf-water-science-center"}, {"@type": "Organization", "name": "Tennessee Water Science Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/lower-mississippi-gulf-water-science-center"}]}], "funder": [{"@type": "Organization", "name": "Tennessee Water Science Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/lower-mississippi-gulf-water-science-center"}, {"@type": "Organization", "name": "Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/lower-mississippi-gulf-water-science-center"}], "spatialCoverage": [{"@type": "Place", "additionalType": "country", "name": "United States", "url": "https://geonames.org/6252001"}]}