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A Consideration of Closed-Loop Pumped Storage in WECC Transmission Expansion Planning
Considering the multiple efforts directed at addressing current and future transmission needs ...    Read More

Utilities in California and Ohio Test New Power Storage Technologies
Utilities in several states recently embraced new energy storage technologies as part of the deployment ...    Read More

Proponents Urge FERC To Adopt ‘Massive Storage’ For Wind Integration
A major hydropower company and two energy experts are calling on FERC to adopt...    Read More

Energy Storage for the Electricity Grid: Benefits and Market Potential Assessment Guide
A Study for the DOE Energy Storage Systems Program...    Read More
FERC Comments

Exploration of Resource and Transmission Expansion Decisions in the Western Renewable Energy Zone Initiative
Building transmission to reach renewable energy (RE) goals requires coordination among renewable developers...    Read More

Wind Energy Curtailment Case Studies
Wind energy development has increased dramatically over the last decade...    Read More

Wind-Hydro Integration: Pumped Storage to Support Wind
Wind turbines provided about 10 % of the electricity production in Spain. Spanish utility Iberdrola, the largest producer of wind energy in the world...    Read More

Secretary Chu Supports Pumped Storage
I am Mark Garner, President and CEO of Voith Hydro in York, Pennsylvania where we've had the pleasure of having Governor Rendell visit us, supporting us in our job growth...    Read More

The Smart Grid
Defining an End-to-End Smart Grid as predicted, 2009 has become a banner year for the smart grid, but until now the term has yet to be fully defined...    Read More

Comparing Storage Technologies
Wide-area energy storage and management system to balance intermittent resources in the Bonneville Power Administration and California ISO Control Area...    Read More

Market Potential of Pumped Storage
Guide to estimating benefits and market potential for electricity storage in New York...    Read More

Load Leveling Reduces T&D Line Losses
The benefit of shifting load from the peak to the offpeak period is well known from the viewpoints of demand response...    Read More

Capturing Grid Power
Making electricity grids "smarter" and modernizing them so that they can accept large amounts of renewable energy resources...    Read More

Worldwide Pumped Storage Capacity
There are 40 pumped hydro facilities with capacities of 1000 MW or greater worldwide, representing 6 continents and 13 countries...    Read More

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