Climate-driven impacts on water in US West will raise the cost of grid decarbonization: Study

The western U.S.’s plans to decarbonize electricity grids by 2050 may be much more expensive than anticipated, as such targets fail to account for the effects of climate change on water resources, a new study has found. Shifts in water availability due to warming could decrease hydropower production by up to 23 percent by midcentury,…