Without a new source of water the plant has to shut down...
Largest coal plant in the west...16 million gallons of water per day...
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/26/1118719636/drought ... s-the-west
BigBarney
Jim Bridger Coal plant to shut down ??? (low water)
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Sadly we need that power to run our EVs