Sentences with phrase «storage hydroelectric plant»

Pumped - storage hydroelectric plant: A plant that usually generates electric energy during peak load periods by using water previously pumped into an elevated storage reservoir during off - peak periods when excess generating capacity is available to do so.

As we ascended the 1,300 - foot - high windswept knob, I was reminded continually of a remarkable gathering last December of environmentalists, lawyers and scholars who played critical roles in defeating a plan proposed by Consolidated Edison in 1962 to embed a pumped - storage hydroelectric plant in the mountain.

While in 1962 the larger public might be characterized as indifferent or mildly impressed with the engineering feat of a pumped - storage hydroelectric plant, by the late 1960s, the tide of opinion had begun to turn and a new conventional wisdom began to emerge.

In the fall of 1962 Consolidated Edison proposed to build a pumped - storage hydroelectric plant at Storm King Mountain.

Pyramid and Castaic act as the upper and lower reservoirs for a 1,495 - megawatt pumped storage hydroelectric plant.

Today, there is also a growing interest in small hydro facilities such as small dams that generate less than 10 megawatts of power and pumped storage hydroelectric plants.

Not exact matches

In the meantime, we will need to build more hydroelectric dams and construct «fossil fuel plants with carbon capture and storage» technology.

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