The world’s largest hybrid pumped hydro storage facility, being built at the Lianghekou Dam ...

Pumped hydro energy storage is a controversial issue, with its supporters believing it can help decarbonize the global economy and its detractors claiming dams destroy the environment. In order to ...

Two multi-billion dollar pumped hydro energy storage projects declared Critical State Significant Infrastructure in race to cancel out coal.

China’s Fengning Pumped Storage Power Station, the largest facility of its kind on Earth, has entered full commercial operation with an installed capacity of 3.6 million kW and a designed annual ...

Rye Development secured a federal license to build a massive new pumped hydro energy storage facility in Washington state. The company could become the first to construct this type of grid megaproject ...

rPlus Hydro LLLP has submitted a final license application (also referred to as a license for major unconstructed project) to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for its 1,000 MW White Pine ...

Pumped-storage hydropower is seen as a key technology in China to balance the grid and store excess energy from intermittent sources like wind and solar. The 1.2-GW Jinzhai pumped-storage project is a ...

But there is a twist. Nearly all of the good PHES sites are located away from rivers, for the simple reason that most of the global landscape is not near rivers. The Australian National University’s ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the second time since the beginning of 2023, rPlus Hydro, LLLP (rPlus Hydro), a national leader in the development of large-scale pumped hydroelectric energy ...

A new paper co-authored by Australian National University Prof. Andrew Blakers examines how long-duration pumped hydro energy stations (PHES) could provide 95% of global energy storage for the ...

It’s no secret that the energy of the future will be increasingly powered by renewables. In fact, the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that the share of electricity from renewables ...