A Water Constrained Future

How Power
Producers Can Minimize Impacts In The West

Water in the West is becoming a constrained resource. Power plants must compete with growing populations, contend with environmental restrictions and continue to share water resources with irrigated agriculture.

 

State regulators, local decision-makers and the general public are beginning to express concern about the water supply, making it more difficult to obtain secure water resources for energy production—California has a zero-liquid discharge rule; Idaho passed a two-year moratorium on construction of coal-fired power plants in the state based on environmental and water supply concerns; Arizona recently rejected permitting for a proposed power plant because of concerns about how much water it would withdraw from a local aquifer.

 

This conference will focus on the issues faced by companies operating thermoelectric plants and trying to site power plants in the Western United States as the water constraints take hold.

 

The conference will also provide examples of producers that are successfully dealing with the constraints. It will provide insight into some of the siting considerations for new power plants and some of the operational considerations of the new technologies in use.

 

What Attendees Will Learn

• Costs and benefits of existing low water cooling technologies currently operational
   
• Water policy and resource management policies affecting the future of water resources in the Western United States
   
• Trends driving the water constraint issue
   
• Emerging technologies to address water constraints
   

Who Should Attend

Utility professionals dealing with strategic planning and energy planning, power plant siting, power plant operations, professionals who work with power plant design, financing power plants, permitting power plants, regulatory affairs, environmental affairs, mechanical engineers designing power plant cooling, energy and water attorneys, chemical engineers in water resources, and consulting engineers managing power plant design projects.

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