Northwest rivers are running high as all that winter snowpack melts into spring runoff.
And that means the region is producing too much of a good thing: carbon-free, renewable energy in the form of both dam-generated hydropower along with electricity from spinning wind-farm turbines.
That's prompted the federal government to take an action it avoided during the last four years of drought conditions: shutting down wind power.
That's something the Bonneville Power Administration did each spring from 2010 to 2012, before more recent drought conditions kept rivers running so low that there was plenty of capacity on the power grid for all the electricity that Northwest wind farms could generate.
But there's one big difference between this spring and the region's pre-drought years: California's increasing supply of solar power.
Electricity suppliers in the Northwest used to sell a lot of their carbon-free energy from wind and hydroelectric dams to California to help it meet its renewable energy goals. But now, with more solar on the grid, California's not buying as much of the Northwest's surplus.