
California
As the latest energy and climate debates continue, Consumer Energy Alliance remains an advocate for distilling the challenges ahead to implement all of the various state and federal renewable energy policy proposals and carbon reduction requirements. We hope communities and policymakers not only work to ensure reliability and economic efficiency, but a cleaner, more diverse energy mix that is able to access large amounts of energy, such as hydropower, without putting downward pressure on the budgets of families and small businesses.
In 2019, the state was the second-largest producer of hydroelectric power, and it is consistently among the nation’s top four hydropower producers.

There are 274 hydroelectric damns in California with four percent of the state’s hydroelectricity being produced in the Pacific Northwest.

California’s hydro generation plants are mostly in the eastern mountain ranges.

The High Grove Station, built in San Bernadino in 1887 was the first hydroelectric plant in the West.
