California's blistering heat sparked power shortages last summer. Here's this year's forecast

(Noah Berger / Associated Press)

Torrential rainfall and massive dumps of snow wreaked havoc across California last winter.But the wild weather brought an upside: Water-storage reservoirs now have abundant supplies of H₂Oto fire up the state's hydropower electricity generators this summer.That fact, combined with record expansion of utility-scale solar power and battery storage, has energy forecasters confident that the state can avoid the potentially dangerous electricity shortfalls of the sort that came with last September's 10-day heat wave, according to state officials at a press briefing Wednesday.

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