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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (934366)	5/10/2016 9:48:42 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572088

"Wave and geothermal? LOL, you really are a blind squirrel trying to find a nut." Mendocino, Sonoma, Lake, and parts of Marin and Napa Counties are powered entirely by geothermal from the Geysers. geysers.com = "Hydro power only works where you have rivers" We still have rivers. Reservoirs are currently 88.7 % of capacity. In 2015, hydro-produced electricity used by California totaled nearly 13,993 gigawatt-hours (GWh),or 7.15 percent of the state's total system power. A total of 268 hydroelectric facilities with an installed capacity of 13,981 megawatts (MW). The amount of hydroelectricity produced varies each year and is largely dependent on snowmelt runoff and rainfall. The annual average hydroelectric generation from 1983 through 2015 is 13,788.7 GWh energyalmanac.ca.gov Ocean EnergyCurrent Pilot Projects In the spring of 2009, the Sonoma County Water District applied to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for three wave project preliminary permits. The projects will be located in state waters offshore Del Mar Landing (the northwestern portion of the county) and off Fort Ross further to the south. Each of the three projects would begin as pilots in the two to five megawatt (MW) range, could potentially expand to commercial facilities in the 40-200 MW range, and would include substations, transmission lines, appurtenant facilities, and submersible electric cables. With these applications, the total number of FERC permits and applications for wave and tidal projects in California waters totals twelve. energy.ca.gov