The upper pond for Okinawa: the world’s first pumped storage plant using seawater

  • Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
  • Vol. 19 - Issue 3, 2012

Japan’s power consumption pattern is characterized by significant variations in demand load between night and day. To address this variable demand, numerous pumped-storage plants have been built in Japan’s river systems. With the best terrestrial sites now already developed, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry commissioned the Okinawa Yanbaru demonstration pilot project based on the concept of seawater pumped storage generation.

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