Pumped storage can play a major role as the country addresses its rapidly growing needs for storage capacity and carbon-free power. Pumped storage hydroelectric projects have been providing valuable ...

How market design shapes technologies’ futures, and what a genuinely hybrid storage landscape might look like by 2035 ...

Local stakeholders say the project simply requires too many unacceptable impacts for the unique, and lucrative, outdoor ...

Closed-loop pumped storage hydropower systems rank as having the lowest potential to add to the problem of global warming for energy storage when accounting for the full impacts of materials and ...

Alaska is warming faster than any other US state, according to the US Department of Agriculture. The state has unique energy needs due to its size, diverse landscape, and remote, rural nature, and ...

A new project that would use water to generate electricity could be coming to Sand Mountain in northeast Alabama. “It’s going to change everything,” said Shane Groves, a Jackson County resident. “The ...

In late November, in a quiet corner of Devon, England, workers began adding a secret, light brown powder to water as they mixed up a special fluid that can store energy. They blended it with the ...

Using idle open-cast coal mines for pumped hydropower storage of solar power is financially feasible, new research from India is suggesting. In the study ...