Climate-driven shifts in freshwater biodiversity will impact mitigation costs for hydropower

HS Yoon, F Corsi, A Miara, JN Welch… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate change is forecasted to drastically alter freshwater fish and mussel species
distribution. Hydropower dam reservoirs, which modify downstream thermal regimes, may …

Temporal variability in reservoir surface area is an important source of uncertainty in GHG emission estimates

CH Hansen, B Iftikhar, RM Pilla… - Water Resources …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Ebullitive methane (CH4) emissions in lentic ecosystems tend to concentrate at river‐lake
interfaces and within shallow littoral zones. However, inconsistent definitions of the littoral …

Evaluation of nominal energy storage at existing hydropower reservoirs in the US

C Hansen, GR Ghimire, SC Kao - Water Resources Research, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Long‐term planning and operation of hydropower reservoirs require an understanding of
both water and energy storage. As energy storage needs of the evolving grid increase, we …

Variability in modelled reservoir greenhouse gas emissions: comparison of select US hydropower reservoirs against global estimates

C Hansen, R Pilla, P Matson, B Skinner… - Environmental …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from reservoirs have most often been evaluated on a
global extent through areal scaling or linear-regression models. These models typically rely …

Evaluating future US hydropower opportunities

C Hansen, K Jackson, K DeSomber - International Journal on Hydropower …, 2021 - osti.gov
Uncertainties, and a lack of confidence regarding issues, such as water availability/storage
capacities and operational constraints, can be major obstacles in assessing the range of …