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A key outcome of the 2016 Upper Mississippi River Conference was the need to raise
awareness of opportunities to implement hydroelectric power on the Upper Mississippi
River and its major tributaries. "Hydro Potential on the Mississippi River" is a key first step
toward reaching this goal.
The aim of this document is to serve as a resource to provi...
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... addition to conventional hydropower systems, pumped storage hydropower is used to help operators meet peak electric power demands and balance the load on the electric distribution grid. In these systems (Figure 4), operators pump water to a reservoir located at a higher elevation where it is stored. During times of high electric power demand, operators can release water from the storage reservoir through turbines which produce electric power on an as-needed basis. In 2016, there were three pumped storage hydropower facilities in the UMR states; all three were located in ...
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Pumped hydro storage (PHS) is the most mature energy storage technology and has the highest installed generation and storage capacity in the world. Most PHS plants have been built with the objective to store electricity generated from inflexible sources of energy such as coal and nuclear in daily storage cycles. However, with the rapid reduction in price of batteries and their ability to decentralize energy storage, future PHS plants are expected to have monthly, seasonal, and pluriannual storage cycles, combined with existing hydropower dams downstream and provide water management services. This chapter gives an overview of different arrangements of PHS plants, their challenges and benefits for supporting the shift to a more sustainable world.
