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The Taum Sauk plant is an open-loop pure pumped operation: unlike some other pumped storage sites, there is no natural primary flow into the upper reservoir available for generation. It is therefore a net consumer of electricity; the laws of thermodynamics dictate that more power is used to pump the water up the mountain than is generated when ...
English: Relief location map of Missouri, USA. Geographic limits of the map: N: 40.8° N; S: 35.8° N; ... Table Rock Lake; Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station;
A shaded-relief topo map of the Taum Sauk pumped storage plant in Missouri, United States. The lake on the mountain is built upon a flat surface, requiring a dam around the entire perimeter. In 2010, the United States had 21.5 GW of pumped storage generating capacity (20.6% of world capacity). [72]
The Hoover Dam in Arizona and Nevada was the first hydroelectric power station in the United States to have a capacity of at least 1,000 MW upon completion in 1936. Since then numerous other hydroelectric power stations have surpassed the 1,000 MW threshold, most often through the expansion of existing hydroelectric facilities.
Taum Sauk is said to be named for a Piankeshaw chief named Sauk-Ton-Qua. [3] Though Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest mountain in Missouri, it is not the most prominent. Taum Sauk rises 522 feet (159 m) from an already elevated base. [6] Mudlick Mountain rises 693 feet (211 m) from a lower base to an elevation of 1,313 feet (400 m). [7]
The East Fork Black River rises in Iron County and flows generally southwardly, through Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park where the Taum Sauk pumped storage plant Upper Reservoir dam breach caused severe damage to the park. A dam on the East Fork forms the Taum Sauk Lower Reservoir which holds water that is pumped to the Upper Reservoir.
Bieudron Hydroelectric Power Station: Valais Switzerland: 1269 MW loss, penstock rupture, three fatalities, flooding and loss of generating capacity: 2000 [12] Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station: Missouri United States
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