Pumped Storage Hydropower Resource and Deployment Potential

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Abstract

There is growing interest in deploying new pumped storage hydropower (PSH) to meet grid needs for flexibility, reliability, and resiliency. This presentation describes how NLR resource assessment, cost modeling, and capacity expansion modeling are used to identify technical and economic PSH deployment potential and support industry decision-making on PSH investments. NLR's open data and tools demonstrate the vast technical potential of PSH on the order of 80 TW, and modeling shows economic PSH deployment under an attractive cost-value proposition.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2026

Publication series

NamePresented at the Pumped Storage Hydro US Conference, 3 June 2025, New York, New York

NLR Publication Number

  • NLR/PR-6A40-95062

Keywords

  • CEM
  • cost modeling
  • GIS
  • planning
  • potential
  • PSH
  • pumped hydropower
  • resource assessment

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