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- Aug 2023
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- for: energy storage, battery storage, pumped hydro, PSH
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- Recent studies indicate that pumped hydro can play a significant role in energy storage for a 100% renewable energy system
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According to the International Hydropower Association, or IHA, a facility with two reservoirs roughly the size of two Olympic swimming pools, and a 500-metre height difference between them, would have an energy capacity of about three and a half megawatt hours. And they last for decades,
- for: pumped hydro storage capacity, pumped hydro, PSH
- paraphrase
- According to the International Hydropower Association, or IHA,
- a facility with:
- two reservoirs roughly the size of two Olympic swimming pools,
- a 500-metre height difference between them,
- would have
- an energy capacity of about three and a half megawatt hours and
- they last for decades,
- a facility with:
- According to the International Hydropower Association, or IHA,
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The ANU found more than six hundred thousand potential sites around the world where closed loop pumped hydro systems could work, 00:07:29 at least from a geographical and topographical point of view anyway, representing a potential of about twenty-three million gigawatt hours of energy storage, which would be about a hundred times what we’d need for a one hundred percent renewable powered global electricity system. Now, obviously not all of those sites will turn out to be appropriate, so we need to keep our feet well and true planted on the ground here. The ANU itself points out that, apart from discounting any 00:07:56 urban areas and known areas of environmentally protected zones, no other comprehensive geological, hydrological, environmental, or heritage studies were carried out as part of their research project, so it’s highly likely that only a relatively small percentage will prove to be viable. But, even if it’s only one percent, that still gets us over the line, doesn’t it?
- for: pumped storage hydro, pumped hydro, pumped storage, PSH, ANU study, ANU PSH
- stats
- 23 million gigawatt-hours of global PSH
- sites in the study were
- geographically and topographically feasible
- non-urban areas
- environmentally protected areas
- this is 100x more than is needed for a global 100% renewable energy storage system
- so even if only 1% of sites were useful, that is enough to provide all we need for global 100% renewable energy storage
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As a rough rule of thumb, based on analysis in Australia, to achieve a one hundred percent 00:08:21 renewable electricity grid, you need about one gigawatt of power for every one million people, plus probably twenty hours of energy storage to give yourself plenty of leeway from the five hours minimum number in the recent studies I mentioned earlier. So that’s twenty gigawatt hours of energy storage per million people in a well-connected high-energy-use country like Aus, with good wind and solar resources. That equates to a total Australian requirement of about 00:08:46 five hundred gigawatt hours in a country that has storage potential about three hundred times
- for: storage requirements per million, grid storage
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- storage requirements for one hundred percent renewables is about
- one gigawatt for every million people
- twenty hours of energy storage per person
- 20 gigawatts including buffer for every million people
- 500 gigawatts for Australia, with storage potential 300x that figure
- storage requirements for one hundred percent renewables is about
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the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, or NREL used well established Geographic Information Systems, or GIS, to assess potential new closed-loop pumped storage hydropower, or PSH, systems across ALL the states, including Alaska and Hawaii, as well as Puerto Rico. That analysis turned up no fewer than fourteen-thousand-eight-hundred-and-forty-six 00:04:51 potential sites with a combined storage capacity of three-point five terawatts that could be discharged over a ten-hour period, providing some thirty-five terawatt-HOURS of energy into the various American grid networks.
- for: NREL, PSH, grid storage, grid storage - alternative, grid storage - pumped hydro, pumped hydro, renewable energy - storage, pumped storage hydro,
- the new NREL study shows the potential for pumped storage to provide for all the grid storage needs
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- Mar 2022
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Piconi says Energy Vault relies on gravity in the same way, but "instead of using water, we're using these composite blocks."
Like pumped hydro
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The steel tower is a giant mechanical energy storage system, designed by American-Swiss startup Energy Vault, that relies on gravity and 35-ton bricks to store and release energy.
Like pumped hydro with rocks
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- May 2017
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nfnh2017.scholar.bucknell.edu nfnh2017.scholar.bucknell.edu
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Churchill Falls hydro-electric project
The Churchill Falls hydro-electric project was inaugurated by Pierre Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, on June 16, 1972. This hydro-electric plant was constructed between 1967 and 1975 and completed one year ahead of the predicted schedule. At the height of its construction, approximately 6,300 workers were present in the summer of 1970. The majority of construction occurred in the summer months, although construction continued year-round despite harsh conditions in Labrador where temperatures dipped to -21°C with a mean annual snowfall of 406 centimeters. The Churchill Falls power station is located in southern Labrador about 1,100 kilometers from an urban area. The Churchill Falls hydro-electric project was the largest hydro-electric project at the time, capable of generating 5,225 mW of electricity. It creates this energy by utilizing the water of the Churchill and Naskaupi Rivers which have a total catchment area of about 67,340 km2 combined. The underground power station is about 305 meters below ground. It uses eleven generators with a combined capacity of 5,225,000 kW. In order to utilize this harvested energy, large power lines capable of handling voltages up to 735 kV were put in place to transmit the energy from Churchill Falls to the Hydro-Quebec transmission system in the Manicouagan-Outardes hydro complex. The distance between these two stations is 606 kilometers. The energy from Churchill Falls was also transmitted via power lines to the Labrador City-Wabush area (Crabb, 1973).
References
Crabb, P. (1973). Churchill Falls- The Costs and Benefits of a Hydro-Electric Development Project. Geography, 330-335.
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