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Flow of Cheap Hydroelectricity Slows in Parched West

2015-08-02 16:46:01| Energy - Topix.net

As rivers and reservoirs shrink across the parched West, cheap sources of water-generated electricity are starting to dry up. Historically low flows on the McKenzie River that snakes west of Oregon's snow-starved Cascades, for example, forced the closure of a hydroelectric generation turbine at the Trail Bridge dam in early July.

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