pumped storage

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A system of generating electricity with hydroelectric power, in which the electricity is generated during hours of peak consumption by using water that has been pumped into an elevated reservoir during the hours of low consumption.

pumped storage

(Engineering / Electrical Engineering) (in hydroelectric systems) a method of using power at a period of low demand to pump water back up to a high storage reservoir so that it can be released to generate electricity at a period of peak demand

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No references found			Commissioned in 1963, Ffestiniog power station became the UK's first major pumped storage power facility. Fear for jobs at hydro-electric power stations by Daily Post (Liverpool, England) Their last major construction scheme was the pumped storage Foyers plant on the shores of Loch Ness, which opened in 1972. MONEY: WATER FIRM GO WITH THE FLOW; First hydro plant in 35 years by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) According to "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" and Plan of 2020, by 2010, China's installed capacity of conventional hydropower will be 180GW, the installed capacity of pumped storage power stations will be 18 million kilowatts, the exploitation of hydropower will be 33%; by 2020, the conventional hydropower installed capacity will be 300GW, the installed capacity of pumped storage power stations will be 50GW, the exploitation of hydropower will be 55%. Research and Markets: China Clean Energy Industry Report, 2008-2009 by Business Wire			pump attendant Pump brake Pump dale Pump gear pump gun Pump handle Pump hood pump house pump in pump iron pump out pump priming Pump rod pump room Pump spear Pump stock pump up pump well pump-action pump-action shotgun pump-and-dump scheme pump-priming pump-type pliers Pumpage pumped pumped storage pumped up pumped-up pumper pumpernickel Pumpet Pumpet ball Pumping Pumping engine pumping station Pumpion pumpkin pumpkin ash pumpkin pie pumpkin seed pumpkin time pumpkin vine pumpkin-shaped pumpkinseed pumps Pumy pun puna Punakha punce Punch			pump-type pliers Pump/Flow Control Subassembly pumpability pumpability test Pumpage pumparound Pumpe-Leitung-Düse Einspritzsystem pumped pumped pumped pumped Pumped and Dumped Pumped Chiller Unit pumped concrete Pumped Condensate Return pumped hand pumped hand pumped hand Pumped Hydroelectric Energy Storage pumped hydroelectric storage pumped into pumped into pumped into pumped iron pumped iron pumped iron pumped out pumped out pumped out Pumped Phase Conjugate Mirror pumped storage Pumped storage hydroelectric pumped tube pumped up pumped up pumped up Pumped-Storage Hydroelectric Power Plant Pumped-storage hydroelectricity Pumped-storage hydroelectricity pumped-up Pumpelly, Raphael Pumpellyite pumpellyite-prehnite-quartz facies pumper pumper pumper pumper Pumper Ladder pumpernickel Pumpernickel bread Pumpernickle pumpers pumpers pumpers Pumpet Pumpet ball Pumphead Pumphead syndrome pumphouse pumping pumping

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