Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Dirty energy today for a clean tomorrow
As hydroelectricity dries up, Californians will rely on natural gas more
New numbers from the California Energy Commission indicate that, even excluding the effects of severe drought that have diminished the availability of hydroelectric power and the shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, state residents have increased their reliance on natural-gas power plants.
Electricity generation from hydroelectric plants is down over 50 percent from 2010, from 31.7 million megawatt hours to just 14.7 million recently. In the 1950s, water coursing through the state's dams provided more than half of California's power, a figure that's shrunk to less than 20 percent as the population continues to expand.
"The current drought is as severe as the 1976-77 drought or the six-year-long dry period of 1987-92 when it comes to hydroelectric production," says a commission report. "However, the state's greater diversity of electricity supply developed since 1976-77 allows for greater flexibility in providing electricity to meet demand."
Meanwhile, the emergency shutdown of San Onofre that became permanent last year took another 2200 megawatt-hours of energy off the grid. While the expansion of alternative energy sources locally continues to outpace the nation as a whole, fossil fuels are likely to make up a considerable portion of energy supply in the short run.
The commission anticipates that, even though drought conditions statewide are expected to continue, increased reliance on other renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power will lessen reliance on gas power in 2015.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Dirty energy today for a clean tomorrow
As hydroelectricity dries up, Californians will rely on natural gas more
Dirty energy today for a clean tomorrow
As hydroelectricity dries up, Californians will rely on natural gas more
New numbers from the California Energy Commission indicate that, even excluding the effects of severe drought that have diminished the availability of hydroelectric power and the shutdown of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, state residents have increased their reliance on natural-gas power plants.
Electricity generation from hydroelectric plants is down over 50 percent from 2010, from 31.7 million megawatt hours to just 14.7 million recently. In the 1950s, water coursing through the state's dams provided more than half of California's power, a figure that's shrunk to less than 20 percent as the population continues to expand.
"The current drought is as severe as the 1976-77 drought or the six-year-long dry period of 1987-92 when it comes to hydroelectric production," says a commission report. "However, the state's greater diversity of electricity supply developed since 1976-77 allows for greater flexibility in providing electricity to meet demand."
Meanwhile, the emergency shutdown of San Onofre that became permanent last year took another 2200 megawatt-hours of energy off the grid. While the expansion of alternative energy sources locally continues to outpace the nation as a whole, fossil fuels are likely to make up a considerable portion of energy supply in the short run.
The commission anticipates that, even though drought conditions statewide are expected to continue, increased reliance on other renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power will lessen reliance on gas power in 2015.
Comments