A new partnership will investigate the viability of colocating a closed-loop pumped hydro energy storage facility with solar PV at the site of a former gold mine in Moose River in the Canadian ...

State Grid Corp. of China says it has finalized a pumped-hydro storage project consisting of four reversible pump-turbine generator units, each with a capacity of 350 MW. It is located near Xiamen, in ...

Hydropower’s reputation as a reliable source of energy and storage may ironically be one of the reasons people often assume it is “tapped out” of investment opportunities. But hydropower, including ...

One of the most efficient ways to store energy is to pump water from one reservoir to another higher reservoir. The energy used in the pumping can then be recovered at a later time by releasing the ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations recently announced an award under its Clean Energy Demonstration Program on Current and Former Mine Land. This award of more than ...

As Dominion Energy evaluates Virginia’s coalfields region for a hydroelectric pumped storage facility, a bill by U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith that would expedite such projects passed the U.S. House of ...

The proposed Lewis Ridge Project would build a closed-loop pumped storage hydropower facility on the site of a former coal mine in Bell County, Ky. At the site of a former coal mine in Appalachian ...

A pumped storage project in Kentucky is being touted as a model example of how land that once was the site of a coal mine can be repurposed for a renewable energy installation. The Lewis Ridge Pumped ...

The CU Hydropower Team is competing in the DOE Hydropower Collegiate Competition to design a closed-loop pumped storage hydropower facility. The team is performing engineering for site development, ...

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A hydropower dam in the Italian Alps. This is the second in a series of blog posts examining how system-scale approaches to energy planning can help resolve the contradictions at the heart of global ...