East Bay Municipal Utility District's logo actually tells quite a story, and it's a powerful one that shows how your bill may be affected.
The logo shows Pardee Dam up in the Sierra Nevada. At the bottom, you'll see what is actually a power plant that will benefit from this year's massive snow pack.
If it gets too hot, or we get a lot of warm rain, a quick melting Sierra snowpack threatens to do a lot of widespread flooding in many parts of California, especially theCalifornia's dams, fed by Sierra snow, are spilling water to make sure they have enough reserve space so that theThe silver lining: it's the mother lode for the Golden State's 386 hydroelectric plants which may supply as much as 22% of California's power this year.
"We have a lot of water that we're getting, that's going through that facility downstream…we use that opportunity in moving water to generate hydropower," said EBMUD's Andrea Pook. PG&E has the oldest and largest privately owned hydro system, and it's fashioned from small systems built for miners and loggers 100 years ago.
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