Breakout Session EPRI 11/09/10

Developing a vision for integrated water/energy/waste distributed systems

DriversBenefits and OpportunitiesApplications (retrofit and greenfield)Political and social barriersChallenges (smart grid)Economies of scale to economies of integration

Next Steps

Identifying who should be involved?EPRI, WaterRF, WERF, WateReuse RF, ASME, National Labs, State government (policy), someone from solid waste

Create structureIdentify methods within each core silo – water/wastewater/ solid waste/energy Identify overlaps

Draft Proposal

• Lead organization – ASME?• Define scope and objectives• Assembly existing case studies – bring in

utlities• Bring to federal agencies together to request

money – EPA, DOE (Nick!!), • Find endorsers - CEQ (Council of

Environmental Quality)

Climate Change Scenario Planning

Definition of Sustainability

Combined Consumer Marketing-----communicate understanding to public of the term ‘asset life’

Distributed Power GenerationWhat technologies work at a

small scaleSiting small projects in urban

areas (NIMBY) – social/politicalPlanning for Distributed power –

best locations to optimize gridSecurity advantages

Desalination – It’s not just a Western Issue

Cooling Technology at Power Plants

--Dry cooling-- Heat Recovery

Reaching out to other Organizations, I.e. Society of

Mechanical Engineers to inform

Decentralized Wastewater/Mater Mgmt

barriers – regulatory and politicalSection 208 – USEPA interpretation

does this still apply as originally envisioned

Integrated, Distributed Systemmake the business case

next wave in public service utilities

Community-scale energy recovery systems w/wastewater

technologiessocial/public perceptions issues

economies of size issuesNew technologies for small scales

How the ‘smart’ grid will affect collaboration and energy recovery

and conservationsmart –water grid

Opportunities to create revenue for wastewater utilities

co-location of ‘green’ technologies currently available

case-studies on sustainable, integrated systems

better understanding of anaerobic digesters, biogas and CHP by power

industry

Re-examine and re-use infrastructure for energy

recovery/efficiencyretrofitting WW infrastructure (including admin structures)

Collaborate on ‘green energy’ funding to invest in new infrastructure for energy recovery and efficiency in the wastewater sector for a win/win integrated benefit (reduced power consumption/increased power production)----Promote new integrated ‘view’ to legislative bodies

Consolidation of existing case studies on sustainable, integrated

Green field, integrated, sustainable model communities for developing world(water, energy, solid waste, soil health)