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Data and Tools for Exploring New Pumped Storage Hydropower Deployment Opportunities

Conference ·
OSTI ID:1992300

Pumped storage hydropower (PSH) is a flexible energy storage technology with the potential to facilitate variable renewable energy integration into the decarbonized electric grid of the future. NREL is developing new data and tools to help understand opportunities for new PSH deployment, including nationwide resource assessment data, a bottom-up component-level cost model, and a lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions calculator. These datasets lay the foundation for better-informed grid planning decisions about how PSH fits into a future portfolio of generation, transmission, and storage assets.

Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Water Power Technologies Office
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1992300
Report Number(s):
NREL/PR-6A40-86879; MainId:87654; UUID:7cb322cd-89f6-4443-b455-93f9162d56fc; MainAdminID:69996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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