This isn't a ha ha type of post or that Renewables suck, climate change blah blah blah.
The drought in the west is really bad and it's not just affecting water supplies. Power production from hydroelectric power is starting to suffer.
The lower Lake Mead levels will almost certainly affect power in the West as well due to the “tremendous amount” of power production out of the Hoover Dam, according to Felicia Marcus, the William C. Landreth visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Water in the West Program.
On the West Coast, she added, residents have already gotten a preview of these issues.
“We found that certainly in terms of the timing in California during our drought where a variety of hydroelectric facilities just didn’t have the water flow to generate as much energy,” Marcus said.
This is going to get really bad this summer.
The drought in the west is really bad and it's not just affecting water supplies. Power production from hydroelectric power is starting to suffer.
The lower Lake Mead levels will almost certainly affect power in the West as well due to the “tremendous amount” of power production out of the Hoover Dam, according to Felicia Marcus, the William C. Landreth visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Water in the West Program.
On the West Coast, she added, residents have already gotten a preview of these issues.
“We found that certainly in terms of the timing in California during our drought where a variety of hydroelectric facilities just didn’t have the water flow to generate as much energy,” Marcus said.
This is going to get really bad this summer.
