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Aridity And Record Heat, Worsened By Climate Change, May Cause Water Levels In California’s Second Largest Reservoir, Lake Oroville, To Fall So Low To Projected ~640 Ft, This Summer of 2021, Causing The Edward Hyatt Power Plant, Which Can Power 800,000 Homes When Operating At Full Capacity, To Shut Down For The First Time Since Opening In 1967.

Lake Oroville Level Likely to Fall So Low Hydro-Power Plant Will Shut for First Time – CBS San Francisco

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/lake-oroville-level-falls-hydro-power-shut-first/

Water at Lake Oroville, the state’s second largest reservoir, is expected to fall so low this summer that its hydroelectric power plant will likely be forced to shut down for the first time since it opened in 1967.