Pumped-storage in the USA: A story of IPPs, PPAs and regulated utilities

  • Martin Burdett
  • Vol. 30 - Issue 4, 2023

The USA has historically been one of the leading countries for pumped-storage development, with total capacity totalling about 22 GW, and the largest project (Bath County) having a capacity of 3000 MW. Today a large number of major planned pumped-storage projects are at various stages of planning and development. News Editor Martin Burdett has discussed with a number of developers and consultants both the incentives and the remaining hurdles for new pumped-storage schemes to move forward, and the clear benefits they will provide when they are developed, particularly in the view of the large volume of intermittent renewables coming on line.

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