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2. Ludington Pumped Storage Power Plant - Wikipedia

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   The Ludington Pumped Storage Plant is a hydroelectric plant and reservoir in Ludington, Michigan. It was built between 1969 and 1973 at a cost of $315 million and is owned jointly by Consumers Energy and DTE Energy and operated by Consumers Energy. At the time of its construction, it was the largest pumped storage hydroelectric facility in the ...

3. Pumped-storage hydroelectricity - Wikipedia

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   Pumped-storage hydroelectricity (PSH), or pumped hydroelectric energy storage (PHES), is a type of hydroelectric energy storage used by electric power systems for load balancing. A PSH system stores energy in the form of gravitational potential energy of water, pumped from a lower elevation reservoir to a higher elevation. Low-cost surplus off ...

4. Cruachan Power Station - Wikipedia

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   Previous pumped-storage systems used separate pumps with a network of pipes to return water to the upper reservoir, making them more expensive to build than conventional hydroelectric systems. [9] Cruachan is pre-dated by the smaller 232 megawatts (311,000 hp) Lünerseewerk ( de ) (Austria, 1958) and the 360 megawatts (480,000 hp) Ffestiniog ...

5. Linth–Limmern Power Stations - Wikipedia

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   The same turbines that pump the water to Lake Mutt reverse into generator mode. The difference in elevation between the two lakes affords a net hydraulic head of 623 m (2,044 ft). [3] [7] [4] Lake Limmern also provides water to the Tierfehd Power Station further down in the valley for conventional hydroelectric generation and pumped-storage ...

6. Helms Pumped Storage Plant - Wikipedia

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   The Helms Pumped Storage Plant is located 50 mi (80 km) east of Fresno, California in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range's Sierra National Forest. It is a power station that uses Helms Creek canyon on the North Fork of the Kings River for off-river water storage [1] and the pumped-storage hydroelectric method to generate electricity. After being ...

7. Hydroelectric power in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Water is pumped from a lower elevation source into a higher one and only released through generators when electric demand is high. In 2009 the United States had 21.5 GW of pumped storage generating capacity, accounting for 2.5% of baseload generating capacity. [14] This increased to a total of 22,878 MW in 2019 and 22,894 MW in 2020. [15]