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Breakout Session EPRI 11/09/10 Developing a vision for integrated water/energy/waste distributed systems Drivers Benefits and Opportunities Applications (retrofit and greenfield) Political and social barriers Challenges (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 structure Identify 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 Generation What technologies work at a small scale Siting small projects in urban areas (NIMBY) – social/political Planning for Distributed power – best locations to optimize grid Security 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 political Section 208 – USEPA interpretation does this still apply as originally envisioned Integrated, Distributed System make the business case next wave in public service utilities Community-scale energy recovery systems w/wastewater technologies social/public perceptions issues economies of size issues New technologies for small scales How the ‘smart’ grid will affect collaboration and energy recovery and conservation smart –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/efficiency retrofitting 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)