The lowering reservoirs has caused less head, which causes less pressure, which means we've lost power. And those are some of the two cheapest ways of producing electricity. And All of that is being replaced with peaker plants, with gas, some renewables with solar and wind. And it's just more expensive than those baseloads. So that's why our prices are going up a lot in Arizona and again across the country, a lot of these cheaper forms which are being associated with dirty, which … (04:29–04:40)
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Asserts that the lost baseload power is being replaced with more expensive peaker plants, gas, and some renewables like solar and wind.
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