pumped storage

It aims to develop 10GW of additional electricity storage projects globally over the next 17 years

The UK should put more cash on the table to build hydropower storage projects, a renewables body said yesterday. Scottish Renewables complained pumped storage is not recognised under the Government’s new Electricity Market Reform (EMR) which pays for low carbon energy. Hydroelectric pumped storage refers to when electricity not needed by the power grid is […]

French engineering firm Alstom is to build a hydropower plant in Israel which will be ready by 2018. Today the firm said it signed two contracts worth €120 million (£99m) to build and run the power plant 60 kilometres east of Haifa, the largest city in northern Israel. The 300MW Gilboa plant will be the […]