From mavensnotebook.com. Picture courtesy of Jennifer Bale. The scores released today will be combined with public benefit scores, which build on public benefit ratios  determined earlier this month, to create a final score on each project’s overall expected return on investment. The Commission will then use this final score to conditionally award nearly $2.7 billion in funding to help expand the state’s water storage capacity. The eight projects under consideration collectively would add 4.3 million acre-feet of water storage capacity to California via diverse projects scattered throughout the state. (more)