Pumped Hydro Storage
topic on 2 shows · 6 statements across 3 episodes
6 statements about Pumped Hydro Storage, every show
US grid has only 9 minutes of pumped hydro and seconds of battery storage
“If you were again to compare that to primary energy supply, we have about nine minutes worth of pumped hydro storage, which means we have probably, I don't know, in the seconds level of battery storage capacity today.”
Ackerman: Northfield Mountain pumped hydro can power 1M homes for 8 hours
“Len told me that when the reservoir at Northfield Mountain is pumped full of water, it can be used to power about a million homes for eight hours.”
Ackerman: Northfield Mountain pumped hydro achieves roughly 75% efficiency
“Of the energy that it takes to run all the pumps and stuff at Northfield Mountain, they get about 75% of it back.”
Kann: Energy Impact Partners invests in thermal storage company Rondo Energy
“We are not investors in pumped hydro storage in the moment. We are not investors in compressed air energy storage. We are investors in a company that does thermal storage, storage as heat, albeit not molten salt. So we're investors in a company called Rondo En…”
Kann: The US will not build much more pumped hydro storage
“Well much as I love pumped hydro storage I just realistically don't think we're gonna add a whole lot more of it, certainly here in the U.S., so I'm not gonna put any of my money into that solution, though it is probably the most mature and maybe the cheapest,…”
Spector: Kauai utility pioneered solar-plus-storage and explores pumped hydro
“Look at the island of Kauai where the electric cooperative there, they really pioneered the solar plus battery plant as a concept several years ago, they built more batteries. Then they basically got as much mileage out of that as they could. And now they're e…”