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Pacific Gas and Electric’s (PG&E) Potter Valley Project has failed at the primary purpose for which Cape Horn and Scott dams and the diversion to the East Branch Russian River were built. After the transformer at the Potter Valley powerhouse failed in 2021, PG&E declined to buy a new one. The dams will never produce another watt of power.
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