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Pumped storage tracking tool

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IHA's Hydropower Pumped Storage Tracking Tool maps the locations and vital statistics for existing and planned pumped storage projects. It is the most...

Websites: https://www.hydropower.org/hydropower-pumped-storage-tool
Small-scale solar-powered irrigation pumping systems

1st January 1981

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New roles for hydropower

1st April 2013

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Hydroelectricity is the world’s main source of renewable energy; it also has considerable scope for expansion around the world – to help unlock the fu...
Ffestiniog hydro station refurb proceeds

24th August 2019

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The first phases of refurbishment works at Ffestiniog Power Station, part of the 2 GW First Hydro pumped storage operation in Wales, have been complet...
Iberdrola develops Spain’s first hybrid hydroelectric project

28th February 2024

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The project aims to allow a ‘faster and more flexible’ coupling to the grid of the current hydroelectric pumping between the rivers Sil and Xares, wit...
33 of GW new hydropower commissioned in 2015

1st April 2016

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Around 33 GW of new hydropower capacity was commissioned around the world in 2015 – including 2.5 GW of pumped storage – according to a briefing ...
Swiss dam raised by 20 metres to enable pumped storage

1st November 2014

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The final block of concrete has been poured to complete the work of raising the height of the Vieux-Emosson dam in Switzerland by 20 metres. The work ...
Six Scottish pumped storage hydro projects could create 15,000 jobs

17th May 2023

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The report by Scottish Renewables and BiGGAR Economics studied the economic impact of six pumped storage hydro projects currently in development in Sc...