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Hydroelectric plants don't need pumped storage for smoothing.
Hydroelectric generators run flat out during high demand times and
throttle back during low demand times. I grew up near TVA dams and it
was hard to convince fishermen to keep away from the outflow pipes.
Some would drown each year when the penstocks would open suddenly.
Pumped storage is popular with the nuke's since they don't like to
ramp the reactors up and down.
At 7:56 AM -0400 5/29/10, Jeffrey Schnick wrote:
On the other hand, if your local power plant is a hydroelectric_______________________________________________
plant, and by smoothing out the demand on it by means of the pumping
scheme one is able to avoid the need for the construction of a
coal-fired plant to meet the demand, one could argue that it is
greener than grass.
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