CleanTechnica » Pumped Hydro Storage http://cleantechnica.com Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:48:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 El Hierro Nearing Completion Of 100% Renewables Goal http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/05/el-hierro-nearing-completion-100-renewables-goal/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/05/el-hierro-nearing-completion-100-renewables-goal/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2014 09:17:52 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=72891 El Hierro — one of the islands making up Spain’s Canary Islands off the coast of Africa — is nearing the achievement of its goal to be powered 100% by renewable energy, according to reports. The goal is reportedly only a few months off — with the island’s new wind energy/water turbine battery system (finished

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/05/26/nuclear-strength-linthal-2015-takes-shape-swiss-alps/feed/ 17 Taking A Deep Dive Into Hydrogen (Charts, Graphs, Tables, More) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/27/taking-deep-dive-hydrogen/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/27/taking-deep-dive-hydrogen/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:30:54 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=65741 We cover quite a lot of university and research institute news here on CleanTechnica. I know a lot of readers love that stuff, but there’s an important downside to news from those sources that is quite prevalent. That news is often overly colorful, optimistic, and revolutionary in its style of writing. Some of those advances

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/27/taking-deep-dive-hydrogen/feed/ 22 The Democratizing Promise Of Energy Storage http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/04/democratizing-promise-energy-storage/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/04/democratizing-promise-energy-storage/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2014 08:13:47 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=64868 While energy storage is a small fraction of total power generation capacity, promising examples suggest that distributed energy storage could change the electricity system during the next decade as fundamentally as distributed renewable energy has in the last decade. Right now, 95% of energy storage in the U.S. is water pumped uphill into in reservoirs,

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/04/democratizing-promise-energy-storage/feed/ 28 Energy Storage Market Set To Explode http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/31/energy-storage-market-set-explode/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/31/energy-storage-market-set-explode/#comments Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:10:42 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=61956 Energy storage is often heralded as the “holy grail” of the energy market. It seems that a number of researchers and companies have worked hard and long enough that this holy grail is ready to see the light. According to market research firm IHS, the energy storage market is set to “explode” to an annual

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/31/energy-storage-market-set-explode/feed/ 108 Alstom To Build Israeli Hydro Storage Power Plant http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/10/alstom-build-israeli-hydro-storage-power-plant/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/10/alstom-build-israeli-hydro-storage-power-plant/#comments Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:40:49 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=61173 Alstom announced on Thursday that it had signed two separate contracts to supply two pump-turbines for the 300 MW Gilboa pumped storage power plant in Israel. The company will provide two 150 MW pump-turbines “with the associated balance of plant equipment” as well as Alstom’s Distributed Control System, alongside an 18 year operation & maintenance

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/10/alstom-build-israeli-hydro-storage-power-plant/feed/ 7 Mark Ruffalo Wants You To Imagine A Cleanly Powered Future http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/04/mark-ruffalo-wants-imagine-cleanly-powered-future/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/04/mark-ruffalo-wants-imagine-cleanly-powered-future/#comments Sat, 04 Jan 2014 23:17:29 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=60843 A version of this article was originally published on Kompulsa — Geography | Energy. Mark Ruffalo is a strong advocate of environmental conservation, and has focused on activism against hydraulic fracturing, which is a relatively recent extraction method for natural gas. Opponents of hydraulic fracturing are concerned that it causes severe water pollution and earthquakes.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/04/mark-ruffalo-wants-imagine-cleanly-powered-future/feed/ 5 Hydrogen Storage For Large-Scale Renewable Energy Deployment — EU Demonstration Projects http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/19/hydrogen-storage-large-scale-renewable-energy-storage-demonstration-projects/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/19/hydrogen-storage-large-scale-renewable-energy-storage-demonstration-projects/#comments Thu, 19 Dec 2013 12:30:49 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=60320 By Denis Kuznetsov To reach a 100% renewable energy world, some solar and wind energy will need to be stored so that they will be available for later use when electricity demand is surpassing electricity generation. Today, if you read journals or blogs on renewable energy, you are very likely to find dozens of articles

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/19/hydrogen-storage-large-scale-renewable-energy-storage-demonstration-projects/feed/ 1 Energy Storage Solutions 101 (VIDEO) http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/12/energy-storage-solutions-101-video/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/12/energy-storage-solutions-101-video/#comments Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:00:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=60076 Activ Solar COO Dr. Johann Harter, who I had the great pleasure of interviewing a couple months ago,recently gave a presentation on energy storage solutions at the fifth International Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Forum in Kyiv (REF2013). It’s a great primer on the various energy storage solutions we have at hand at the moment. He also

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/12/energy-storage-solutions-101-video/feed/ 15 Top 10 Most Interesting Energy & Environment Articles From October http://cleantechnica.com/2013/11/09/top-10-interesting-energy-environment-articles-october/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/11/09/top-10-interesting-energy-environment-articles-october/#comments Sun, 10 Nov 2013 00:54:11 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=58732 Here’s my latest monthly report of the “Top 10” most compelling clean energy, climate, and environment-related news stories encountered last month. These articles may have an impact on your business, your life, and the world we live in. Or, at the very least, might surprise you about what’s going on. Over a thousand articles were

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/09/13/study-battery-energy-storage-works-for-solar-but-not-wind/feed/ 105 The Inside Story Of The World’s Biggest ‘Battery’ And The Future Of Renewable Energy http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/29/the-inside-story-of-the-worlds-biggest-battery-and-the-future-of-renewable-energy/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/29/the-inside-story-of-the-worlds-biggest-battery-and-the-future-of-renewable-energy/#comments Thu, 29 Aug 2013 09:00:12 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=55726 Originally published on ClimateProgress. by Ryan Koronowski The largest battery in the world has sat quietly in George Washington National Forest along the Virginia-West Virginia border for nearly 30 years. A five-hour drive from the nation’s capital, it sits in the middle of the Appalachians, tucked behind the Blue Ridge Mountains. Very few people in

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/29/the-inside-story-of-the-worlds-biggest-battery-and-the-future-of-renewable-energy/feed/ 5 Cleantech Buffet (… Most Attractive States For Solar, 4 Lessons From Solar Crowdfunding …) http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/27/cleantech-buffet-2/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/27/cleantech-buffet-2/#comments Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:33:12 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=55634 Here’s a fresh cleantech buffet for you. Enjoy! (Links to our own stories on the subheadings.) Solar Most Attractive States For Investing In Solar There are a lot of ways to evaluate the attractiveness of a place for renewable energy or solar energy investment, and to evaluate the best solar states. Of course, it depends

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/27/cleantech-buffet-2/feed/ 0 New Hydropower Laws Could Add 60 GW Of Clean Energy To US Grid http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/16/new-hydropower-laws-could-add-60-gw-of-new-renewables-to-us-grid/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/16/new-hydropower-laws-could-add-60-gw-of-new-renewables-to-us-grid/#comments Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:42:13 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=55115 The one thing everyone working on energy issues in America can agree upon is non-existent energy policy action at the national level. But late last week President Obama signed two bipartisan bills that could create a major boost for US renewables generation from an unlikely source – small hydropower.

It’s kind of amazing these bills becoming law hasn’t gotten much attention, since they’re the first real energy legislation to pass Congress since 2009, and could ultimately create 1.2 million green jobs while adding 60 gigawatts of new renewable electricity to the grid.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/16/new-hydropower-laws-could-add-60-gw-of-new-renewables-to-us-grid/feed/ 9 The Intermittency of Wind and Solar: Is It Only Intermittently a Problem? http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/12/intermittency-of-wind-and-solar-is-it-only-intermittently-a-problem/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/12/intermittency-of-wind-and-solar-is-it-only-intermittently-a-problem/#comments Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:00:33 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=54958 Editor’s Note: One of CleanTechnica’s awesome readers has provided us with this exclusive guest post on the “intermittency” of various power sources — renewable and non-renewables. The article “knocks it out of the park,” so to speak. Get into a discussion with someone about the “intermittency” of wind or solar power? Add this article to

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/29/more-top-energy-stories-of-the-week/feed/ 0 Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of The Year (Part One: #1-10) http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/01/top-50-solar-energy-stories-of-the-year-part-one-1-10/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/01/top-50-solar-energy-stories-of-the-year-part-one-1-10/#comments Sat, 01 Jun 2013 17:00:26 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=52378 We’re trying to get more solar energy stories going over on Planetsave. To catch readers up, I’m doing a short series on the top 50 solar energy stories of 2013 so far. I guess that’s 10 per month, theoretically. Learning from the Top 33 EV Stories article I recently published, I’m splitting this one into

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/01/top-50-solar-energy-stories-of-the-year-part-one-1-10/feed/ 0 Energy Storage On The Bottom Of The Ocean — New Pumped Hydroelectric Power Storage Design http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/21/energy-storage-on-the-bottom-of-the-ocean-new-pumped-hydroelectric-power-storage-design/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/21/energy-storage-on-the-bottom-of-the-ocean-new-pumped-hydroelectric-power-storage-design/#comments Tue, 21 May 2013 14:00:56 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=51873 Storing electricity at the bottom of the ocean? The idea may sound strange at first, but the new concept from the German engineer Rainer Schramm could be very effective — with an efficiency of around 80%, comparable to conventional energy storage systems. The energy storage system makes use of the pressure differential between the seafloor

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