Newsom “Strategy” Condemns Central Valley Salmon to “Hotter, Drier Future”

by California Sportfishing Protection Alliance | Feb 1, 2024

The “California Salmon Strategy” announced January 30, 2024 by the Newsom Administration is a tour de force of avoidance and deflection. It blows right past the single largest issue facing California’s salmon: inadequate flows into and through the Bay-Delta Estuary....

PG&E Confirms Plan to Begin Full Removal of Eel River Dams

by California Trout | Nov 17, 2023

All in-river facilities to be removed; Eel will be the longest free-flowing river in California On November 17, 2023, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) released the initial draft (click the documents tab and enter password: PV_Surrender to download) of its...

Challenging the Hydropower Clean Energy Future Act: SYRCL’s Perspective

by South Yuba River Citizens League | Oct 2, 2023

The South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) believes it is crucial to address environmental issues with transparency and a commitment to facts. That is why we question some of the assertions made by hydropower providers as to the environmental benefits of their...

Dollars and Dams: Building Safety into California’s Future

by American Rivers | Apr 20, 2023

The near-failure of Oroville Dam on February 7, 2017 was a major wake-up call regarding the risks posed by dams in California and nationwide.  The January 5, 2023 spillway failure of the North Fork Dam on Pacheco Creek is an unfortunate sign that California has much...

Hydropower flexibility valuation tool for flow requirement evaluation

by Colleen McNally-Murphy | Dec 6, 2022

Highlights Examined value of hydropower flow flexibility using a two-stage optimization method. Revenue is more sensitive to ramping constraints than minimum flow constraints. Demonstrated the impacts of hydropower plant configuration changes on revenue. Evaluated...