The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected Rye Development to receive $81 million to develop the Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage project in Kentucky on former mine land. Rye Development, with headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida, develops and commercializes run-of-river and pumped storage projects to generate clean, renewable electricity. … [continued]
There’s been a lot of great pumped hydro news from around the world in the past month, so a bit of a round up is in order. As a reminder, pumped hydro is the gravity storage solution that actually works, unlike concrete blocks, elevators and hillside rail systems. We’ve been … [continued]
With the gigantic Fengning pumped hydro storage project nearing completion, China is on pace to have 40 GW of pumped hydro storage on tap soon, more than any other country in the world.
The $1 billion Gordon Butte pumped hydro project will add 400 MW of energy storage to the Pacific Northwest. Construction will begin in 2020.
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in India is looking beyond batteries to push energy storage in the renewable energy and grid balancing and support sector.
Los Angeles Water & Power has a plan to build a pumping station 20 miles downstream from Hoover Dam to return some of the water in the lower Colorado River so it can be used to make more electricity. But the devil is in the details.
A company in Scotland wants to build a large pumped hydro storage facility on the shores of Loch Ness. It will store enough energy to power 400,000 homes.
French utility company EDF plans to invest $10 billion in grid scale and behind the meter energy storage as it moves toward supplying electricity that is 100% carbon emissions free.
Hydrostor, a Canadian company, says it has developed a new compressed air energy storage system that is half the cost of grid-scale batteries and equal to the cost of a new natural gas powered generating plant.
It’s well known that Germany is a world leader in solar and wind power. There’s a fair amount of unwarranted criticism levied at renewables, and generally it seems there is not nearly as much positive press. For that reason, it might be surprising to hear that an energy cooperative in … [continued]
