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Understanding The Electricity-Water-Climate Change Nexus Using A Stochastic Optimization Approach, Ivan Saavedra Antolinez

Theses and Dissertations

Climate change has been shown to cause droughts (among other

catastrophic weather events) and it is shown to be exacerbated by the

increasing levels of greenhouse gas emissions on our planet. In May 2013, CO₂ daily average concentration over the Pacific Ocean at Mauna Loa Observatory reached a dangerous milestone of 400 ppm, which has not been experienced in thousands of years in the earth's climate. These levels were attributed to the ever-increasing human activity over the last 5-6 decades. Electric power generators are documented by the U.S. Department of Energy to be the largest users of ground and …