Closed loop pumped hydro can be built anywhere there's a hill, there's tons of a...

Animats · 2025-03-04T03:10:55 1741057855

There are 86 large pumped storage sites in the world. It does work, but you need the right geography. You need two good reservoir sites at considerably different levels close to one another. That's somewhat hard to find.

igor47 · 2025-03-08T04:47:58 1741409278

https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-deal-with-pumped-hydro

David Roberts

Yeah, we have a lot of hills. And that's it. So, other than that, you could plop one of these down almost anywhere.

Erik Steimle

That's correct, yeah. You need some proximity, obviously, to transmission and load.