Environmental groups have denounced a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff report supporting a $3.3 billion pump-storage power plant along the Columbia River in south-central Washington. FERC’s ...

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 ...

Pumped storage can play a major role as the country addresses its rapidly growing needs for storage capacity and carbon-free power. Pumped storage hydroelectric projects have been providing valuable ...

Hydro has made the final investment decision for its largest hydropower development in over 20 years. Construction of the Illvatn pumped storage power plant in the Luster Municipality will begin this ...

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 ...

Researchers in Italy have analyzed the techno-economic viability of enhancing three pumped hydro plants in Italy with floating PV on the lower basin. They say that, with their wide results, ...

Alpiq has acquired the advanced-stage Navaleo project in Castilla y León, adding 535MW of long-duration storage capacity to Spain’s grid and marking its first large-scale hydropower investment outside ...

Duke Energy recently completed upgrades to the four units at its 1,680 MW Bad Creek pumped storage plant in Salem, S.C., adding 320 MW of carbon-free energy to its system. Duke Energy said its goal is ...

Italian energy company Enel will integrate a 4 MW/8 MWh lithium-ion BESS with the 43.4 MW Dossi pumped storage hydroelectric power plant, in Bergamo, Italy. Enel’s BESS4Hydro project, backed by the ...