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| "Lake" Oroville on July 22, 2021 (Chronicle photo) |
The Lake Oroville hydroelectric plant has been
shut down due to the drought:
It was the first time the Hyatt Powerplant at Lake Oroville has been shut down because of low lake levels since it was constructed....Hyatt is the fourth-largest hydroelectric energy producer in California, authorities said.
It was only
four years ago that there was so much rain and snow during the winter that the water pouring over the Oroville Dam threatened the collapse of the spillway.
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| Oroville in 2017 |
The failure to add water storage capacity to save for a sunny day--and to upgrade existing
dams and reservoirs--is another consequence of a Progressive governance that wasted multi-$billions on a high-speed rail system and
decommissioned reliable, carbon-free nuclear power plants.
The inability to provide adequate water, not to mention electrical power, is a feature of a developed society, and it's a reasonable question whether California fulfills even that basic definition.
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