Nov. 22—BLUEFIELD, Va. — Development is being halted on a proposed $2 billion project which would have created a power-generating pump storage facility in Tazewell County which could have created ...

Rye Development proposed the current incarnation of the $2 billion to $3 billion facility in 2017. At the time, Klickitat County had already been planning for years to develop pumped hydro storage at ...

Electricity demand rises and falls throughout the day, but many power plants and renewable sources do not generate energy on the same schedule. This mismatch creates a challenge for modern power grids ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. North Carolina’s predominant utility is backing away from a long-held plan to double the size of its largest pumped storage ...

Pumped storage hydropower is the greenest renewable energy technology for large-scale energy storage, a new study suggests. Researchers with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory said closed-loop ...

A controversial energy project in south central Washington is one step closer to breaking ground. A federal commission released its final environmental review for the Goldendale Pumped Storage Energy ...

A pumped storage project in Kentucky is being touted as a model example of how land that once was the site of a coal mine can be repurposed for a renewable energy installation. The Lewis Ridge Pumped ...

Journalist Robert Kunzig explains how an old technology could complement wind and solar installations to decarbonize the electric grid. However, big upfront costs and thorny land-use issues would ...

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 ...

Alpiq has acquired the advanced-stage Navaleo project in Castilla y León, adding 535MW of long-duration storage capacity to Spain’s grid and marking its first large-scale hydropower investment outside ...

A state board rejected claims the Goldendale pump-storage energy project in south-central Washington would pollute the Columbia River, affirming the Department of Ecology’s judgment. The Pollution ...

Context matters for enterprises, especially if it changes dramatically, and this is what is happening in Nepal’s hydropower sector. It is primarily about economics. The price of electricity generated ...