Solar

Solar offsets California hydro gap

One happy historic performance is helping to offset another tragic one underway in California, with surging solar installations buoying the state’s supply of electricity even as a crippling water drought dents hydroelectric production.

California relies heavily on snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains for water during its dry summer months.
California relies heavily on snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains for water during its dry summer months.
  • Karl-Erik Stromsta in New York
Published 12 May 2014, 13:57Updated 27 September 2016, 06:09