Pumped hydroelectric energy storage in sediment-laden rivers can lead to equipment failure and higher maintenance costs.

TC Energy, the company proposing to build a pumped storage facility on Department of National Defence lands near Meaford, has ...

Sizable Energy has a plan to store excess renewable energy in flexible reservoirs out at sea. The startup has raised $8 ...

Blowering, Burrendong and Hume dams are three of the WaterNSW sites shortlisted for potential new pumped hydro energy storage projects.

Journalist Robert Kunzig explains how an old technology could complement wind and solar installations to decarbonize the electric grid. However, big upfront costs and thorny land-use issues would ...

Blowering, Burrendong, and Hume dams in New South Wales, Australia, have been shortlisted by WaterNSW as potential sites for ...

The Mayor Pro Tem of Bastrop, John Kirkland, is opposed to Austin Water's Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) project, which ...

Chinese researchers have estimated the potential of underground pumped hydro storage facilities for all the abandoned mines in the Yellow River basin, which crosses nine Chinese provinces and two ...

Pumped storage is making up a growing share of hydropower projects proposed or under development, which could be significant for renewables, observers say. A massive clean energy project that doesn’t ...

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Spend $2 billion, gain no electric grid capacity. It doesn’t sound like much of a deal for any utility, but that’s the estimated cost of a huge underground hydroelectric development proposed earlier ...