Western Utility Seeds Clouds To Boost Size of Snowpack

摘要

Idaho Power, which depends upon hydropower to serve about 500,000 customers in southern Idaho and eastern Oregon, is trying to augment its water supply by cloud seeding. While the concept dates from the 1940s, Idaho Power is pushing to expand its decade-old program to increase snowpack-and stronger runoff for its hydroelectric generation facilities-by as much as 15% annually.