TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling the Water-Energy Nexus for the Phoenix Active Management Area
AU - Fard, Mostafa D.
AU - Sarjoughian, Hessam S.
AU - Mahmood, Imran
AU - Mounir, Adil
AU - Guan, Xin
AU - Mascaro, Giuseppe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/12/14
Y1 - 2020/12/14
N2 - Phoenix, an Active Management Area in the desert Southwest US, is the 5th most populated city in the US. Scarce local groundwater and water transported from external resources must be managed in the presence of different types of energy sources. Local and regional decision-makers are faced with answering challenging questions on managing water, energy supply, and demand over a few years to several decades. Prediction and planning for the interdependency of these entities can benefit from modeling the water and energy systems as well as their interactions with one another. In this paper, the integrated WEAP and LEAP tools and a modeling framework that externalizes their hidden linkage to an interaction model are described and compared using the Phoenix AMA. Loose coupling enabled by interaction modeling is a key for decision-policies that should be grounded at the nexus of the water-energy system of systems.
AB - Phoenix, an Active Management Area in the desert Southwest US, is the 5th most populated city in the US. Scarce local groundwater and water transported from external resources must be managed in the presence of different types of energy sources. Local and regional decision-makers are faced with answering challenging questions on managing water, energy supply, and demand over a few years to several decades. Prediction and planning for the interdependency of these entities can benefit from modeling the water and energy systems as well as their interactions with one another. In this paper, the integrated WEAP and LEAP tools and a modeling framework that externalizes their hidden linkage to an interaction model are described and compared using the Phoenix AMA. Loose coupling enabled by interaction modeling is a key for decision-policies that should be grounded at the nexus of the water-energy system of systems.
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U2 - 10.1109/WSC48552.2020.9384054
DO - 10.1109/WSC48552.2020.9384054
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85103906530
T3 - Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference
SP - 2317
EP - 2328
BT - Proceedings of the 2020 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2020
A2 - Bae, K.-H.
A2 - Feng, B.
A2 - Kim, S.
A2 - Lazarova-Molnar, S.
A2 - Zheng, Z.
A2 - Roeder, T.
A2 - Thiesing, R.
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2020 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2020
Y2 - 14 December 2020 through 18 December 2020
ER -