• Cooling water: a source of conflict in Spain, 1970-1980 

      Sesma Martín, Diego Upna Orcid (MDPI, 2020)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      Water resources are limited and uneven in space and time. Competition for the use of the resource can lead to conflicts between water users. Besides its use for irrigation and agriculture, water is an essential input in ...
    • Freshwater for cooling needs: a long-run approach to the nuclear water footprint in Spain 

      Sesma Martín, Diego Upna Orcid; Rubio Varas, María del Mar Upna Orcid (Elsevier, 2017)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      From the invention of the steam engine to the present, water has represented a significant input to the energy system, although this has been mostly ignored in the literature. In Spain, the most arid country in Europe, ...
    • The river’s light: water needs for thermoelectric power generation in the Ebro river basin, 1969–2015 

      Sesma Martín, Diego Upna Orcid (MDPI, 2019)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      Water is essential for almost all energy processes. This paper analyses the evolution of the cooling water needs of thermal power plants in the Ebro River basin, the largest contributor to the Spanish electricity grid, ...
    • The weak data on the water–energy nexus in Spain 

      Sesma Martín, Diego Upna Orcid; Rubio Varas, María del Mar Upna Orcid (IWA Publishing, 2019)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      This paper focuses on the fact that the water–energy nexus remains an irrelevant issue on the energy policy agenda and on the priorities of the energy leaders in Spain. This is a striking fact given that this takes place ...

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