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- Snowy 2.0, doomed from the start — after the sinkhole came the poison gas, “worst major project in history” Tue, 24 Oct 23, 4:06amABC News By Jo Nova It’s just emblematic of your Clean Green Future Complexity and false hope is eating the crown of Australia’s Net Zero transition — the Snowy 2.0 Pumped Hydro scheme. Things have gone...
- “80% renewables by 2030 is Bullshit” says former Snowy Hydro CEO — transition will take 80 years, not 8 Fri, 5 May 23, 5:40amSupplied by Snowy Hydro By Jo Nova Australia’s star “Renewables BackUp” the Snowy Hydro 2.0 scheme has been delayed another two years. The pumped storage mammoth looks more like a ghost elephant every day....
- Snowy 2.0 could win Prize for Most Globally Stupid Green Engineering Project Tue, 21 Feb 23, 5:37amBy Jo Nova Tantangara Resevoir: A whole ecosystem to fill with invasive feral fish and a necrosis virus too. The Snowy 2.0 Pumped hydro scheme will cost families big money, spread pests, endanger fish, and kill trees but...
- Here’s how pumped hydro works as an energy storage resource Fri, 21 Jan 22, 1:51amBatteries get the hype, but pumped hydro has long been the energy storage workhorse.
- To batteries and beyond: The storage technologies poised to play a key role in the energy transition Tue, 17 Nov 20, 4:00pmAt least 33 U.S. utilities are aiming to become carbon-free or reach net-zero emissions by 2050. These are some of the technologies that could help them get there. By the end of 2019, approximately one out of three Americans...
- GE Renewable Energy to support the development of pumped hydro storage solutions in India Thu, 17 Sep 20, 2:00pmGE Renewable Energy to supply and commission four 125 MW fixed speed pumped storage turbines for the new Kundah hydropower plant. The project is part of ongoing effort by Indian government to take full advantage of hydropower...
- California: We Need 1GW of New Long-Duration Energy Storage by 2026 Wed, 8 Apr 20, 1:36pmCalifornia officials expect that the state needs 1 gigawatt of new long-duration energy storage by 2026 to advance its clean-energy transition. That figure emerged in the "reference system portfolio" that the California Public...
- Contenders: Long Duration Energy Storage Technologies, and Who's Behind Them Wed, 8 Jan 20, 4:44amAs the global energy market, piece by piece, slowly but surely, moves towards a renewables-centered paradigm, dispatchable solar and uncurtailed wind, along with other forms of clean energy, are requiring longer and longer...
- Utility-Scale Storage Critical to Achieving Massachusetts Carbon Goals: UMass Study Thu, 21 Nov 19, 12:00amThe Commonwealth of Massachusetts is likely to fall short of its greenhouse gas emission goals if it cannot implement utility-scale storage, according to a new study...
- Energy Department Announces the Grand Prize Winners of the FAST Prize Competition Thu, 10 Oct 19, 6:44amThe U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) announced the grand prize winners in the Furthering Advancements to Shorten Time (FAST) Commissioning for Pumped-Storage Hydropower Prize competition,...
- GE Books US Hydro Upgrade Double Thu, 25 Jul 19, 1:47amGE Renewable Energy has secured two contracts in the US to supply technology to upgrade hydro plants with a combined capacity of 1249MW. FirstLight has chosen GE Renewable Energy to design, supply, install and commission...
- 400 Megawatt Pumped Hydro Facility In Montana Secures $1 Billion In Funding Wed, 24 Jul 19, 8:23pmA proposed 400 megawatt pumped hydro storage project near Martinsdale, Montana is a big step closer to reality. Its promoter, Absaroka Energy, announced this week it had secured $1 billion in financing from Copenhagen Infrastructure...
- NREL Names FAST Prize Concept Stage Winners Wed, 24 Jul 19, 7:21amNine pumped-storage hydropower concepts today were named winners of the latest stage in the FAST Commissioning for Pumped-Storage Hydropower prize competition...