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I think you misread. Hydro will be allowed under this bill.


oh I must have, I read this sentence "The state currently gets about 44 percent of its power from renewables and hydropower." as continuing with the current thought that hydro wasn't 100% clean.

Pump it up then.


Will hydro be viable if the rainfall gets worse? Lake Mead is about 40% capacity, I can't imagine other dams are doing much better.



I thought they were already used as pumped storage? I know the grand coullee has the ability to pump water up into its reaovoir, at least they talked about this in a high school class I took 25 years ago.


THey can build transmission lines into WA and OR and get hydrop from there.


A ton of pacific northwest hydropower is already flowing into California through the BPA's intertie system:

https://www.bpa.gov/news/pubs/FactSheets/fs-20170726-BPA-set...


Assuming those states want to sell power to CA. I suppose they would if CA is willing to pay for it.




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