August 7th, 2021
Via Politico, a report on an auspicious watergy crisis in California: California water managers on Thursday shut down hydropower generation at Lake Oroville for the first time ever due to falling lake levels, a major milestone in the state’s historic drought. What happened: The Hyatt Powerplant at Lake Oroville went offline for the first time in […]
Read more »Extreme Drought Could Shut Down a Hydroelectric Power Plant In California
July 19th, 2021
Via Vice, a report on the impact that California’s drought will have upon its renewable energy production: Officials are preparing for the likelihood that California’s record breaking drought will come for its renewable energy stores. The West Coast state, which has been weathering wildfires, 126-year rainfall lows, and a historic heat dome, announced on Friday that it is preparing for […]
Read more »July 16th, 2021
Via the Thomson Reuters Foundation, an article on how the diversion of Muzaffarabad’s Neelum river for clean power has raised summer temperatures – and a second river may be diverted too: On hot summer evenings, Khawaja Magbool Hadieri’s family used to sit on their home’s balcony and relish the cool breeze wafting off the nearby […]
Read more »Historic Drought To Shrink California’s Hydroelectric Generation By 19%
July 8th, 2021
Via Renewable Energy World, a report on the impact that California’s historic drought has had upon its hydroelectric generation: As a result of harsh drought conditions in California in 2021, the U.S. Energy Information Administration expects the state’s hydroelectric generation to be lower in 2021 than it has been in recent years. In the first […]
Read more »July 1st, 2021
Via American University of Beirut, a paper on the watergy nexus of water and wastewater service in Lebanon: Though well established and understood by practitioners, policy-makers ignore the interrelation between energy and water when developing energy and water policies, known as the water-energy nexus This has led to the rise of complex challenges, especially in Lebanon, due to […]
Read more »Cambodia Embraces Dirty Energy Fearing Drought-Driven Shortages
June 26th, 2021
Via Third Pole, a report on how successive droughts in recent years have caused a power crisis in Cambodia, prompting the government to rapidly invest in and build coal and oil plants: In a span of two years, two big generators and a protective fence have been erected in what once used to be a […]
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