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Heat and drought are sucking US hydropower dry
Why hydropower in the West reached its lowest point in decades.
And in a reversal of fortunes, typically wetter states in the Northeast — normally powerhouses for hydropower generation — were the hardest hit. A series of atmospheric river storms in 2023 were a double-edged sword, dropping record amounts of snow and rain in parts of the state while also causing disastrous flooding in communities more accustomed to dry weather. Energy-related greenhouse gas emissions across the world increased by 410 million metric tons last year, roughly equivalent to adding the pollution from more than 1,000 new gas-fired power plants.
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