Reducing greenhouse gas emissions of Amazon hydropower with strategic dam planning

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 4281 - 9
• Main Authors: Almeida, Rafael M., Shi, Qinru, Gomes-Selman, Jonathan M., Wu, Xiaojian, Xue, Yexiang, Angarita, Hector, Barros, Nathan, Forsberg, Bruce R., García-Villacorta, Roosevelt, Hamilton, Stephen K., Melack, John M., Montoya, Mariana, Perez, Guillaume, Sethi, Suresh A., Gomes, Carla P., Flecker, Alexander S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 19.09.2019; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 704/172/4081; 704/47/4113; 706/4066/4076; Carbon; Clean energy; Dams; Electric power generation; Emissions; Emissions control; Fossil fuels; Greenhouse effect; Greenhouse gases; Humanities and Social Sciences; Hydroelectric power; Industrial plant emissions; multidisciplinary; Multiple objective analysis; Optimization; Power plants; Renewable energy sources; River basins; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Solar energy; Sustainable development; Sustainable energy; Wind power

Hundreds of dams have been proposed throughout the Amazon basin, one of the world’s largest untapped hydropower frontiers. While hydropower is a potentially clean source of renewable energy, some projects produce high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per unit electricity generated (carbon intensity)....