September 4th, 2018 | by George Harvey
A number of stories have popped up in the news recently about turning traditional hydroelectric stations, which generate power by using water captured from a flowing river, into pumped storage facilities, which cycle the water using more energy to do so than they produce
July 28th, 2016 | by Joshua S Hill
A new report published by the US Department of Energy has hinted at a 50% growth in the country’s already [&hellip
June 16th, 2016 | by Susan Kraemer
Australia’s Genex Power is recycling a disused gold mine as a 400-450 MW pumped hydro storage project, with the potential [&hellip
May 12th, 2016 | by Glenn Meyers
The eStorage Project, a consortium of European stakeholders in the “electric power value chain,” has released a study identifying a massive [&hellip
May 26th, 2014 | by Sandy Dechert
Yes, this is a picture of a dump truck being hoisted up a mountain on cables. And no, it’s not [&hellip
January 10th, 2014 | by Joshua S Hill
Alstom announced on Thursday that it had signed two separate contracts to supply two pump-turbines for the 300 MW Gilboa [&hellip
October 11th, 2013 | by Tina Casey
A company called Moriah Hydro Corp. hopes to build a gigantic, 260 megawatt pumped storage hydroelectric facility in upstate New [&hellip
August 14th, 2012 | by Andrew
Wind farms, pumped hydro storage sites, and local renewable energy co-ops are all part of the "Spirit of Ireland" project, which aims to transform Ireland into a net exporter of electricity.
March 27th, 2012 | by Zachary Shahan
Some other top cleantech posts from the past couple weeks or so: Wind Power 1. Vestas published an interesting [&hellip
June 20th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
In an interesting marriage of clean and dirty tech, Deutsche Welle is reporting that the state government of Lower Saxony in Germany is looking into repurposing old abandoned coal mines inside the Harz mountains as pumped storage for wind power
April 18th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
When you consider the environmental benefits of solar power for providing electricity, it has always seemed unfair that it takes so much bureaucracy to overcome to get it built, even in the nation's leader, California. Whereas a natural gas power plant sails through the permitting process with ease, solar can take years and be tripped up by technicalities that don't slow the permitting of polluting power plants
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