Value and Role of Pumped Storage Hydro under High Variable Renewables

Technical Report · Wed Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2021

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1824300· OSTI ID:1824300

Shao, Miaolei ^[1]; Guo, Xian ^[1]; Bisceglia, Christina ^[2]; de Mijolla, Genevieve ^[2]; Rao, Shruti ^[2]; Pajic, Slobodan ^[2]; Ibanez, Eduardo ^[2]; Bringolf, Mitchel ^[2]; Havard, David ^[3]

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1. General Electric Research Lab., Schenectady, NY (United States)
2. General Electric Co., Atlanta, GA (United States). GE Gas Power
3. General Electric Co., Paris (France). GE Renewable Energy

A project team, led by GE Research, was tasked by the U.S Department of Energy (DOE) to study the value and role of pumped storage hydro (PSH) under high variable renewables. The study was majority funded by DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) through a program managed by EERE’s Water Power Technologies Office. The project team for the study consists of three organizations – GE Research, GE Energy Consulting, and GE Renewables.

• Research Organization: General Electric Research Laboratory, Schenectady, NY (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Water Power Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: EE0008782
• OSTI ID: 1824300
• Report Number(s): DOE-GE-0008782
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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