List of pumped-storage hydroelectric power stations

This list of pumped storage power plants contains located and planned in operating pumped storage power plants in Central Europe and in the world. It makes no claim to completeness.

Pumped storage power plants with fresh surface water storage ( selection)

The power stations are sorted in order of MW power. The particular construction or commissioning can be read at the annual figures.

Germany

In Germany, a pumped storage power of about 7 GW (gigawatt ) is installed. The power plants are designed for a useful life of 4-8 hours daily. This resulted for the year 2010, a total storage capacity of about 40 GWh. In 2006, the German pumped storage power plants generated 4,042 GWh of electrical energy. This was offset by a pumping work of 5,829 GWh, so that the average efficiency was about 70%.

In individual statements more plants can be found. However, only storage or hydroelectric power plants. This includes the power plant Eibele / Plant III with 0.65 MW in Bavaria, which was 1958/61 built as a pump storage power plant and expanded in 1971; today it is only used as a hydroelectric power plant.

Planning

  • Atdorf: pumped storage power plant in Atdorf Hotzenwald ( Schluchseewerke AG). It is scheduled for completion in 2018Vorlage: be the largest in Europe Future / In 4 years, with 1400 MW maximum power. The two pools with a difference in altitude of 600 m should be assigned a storage volume of 9 million to 10 million cubic meters. This corresponds to a working capacity of approximately 13 GWh.
  • Blautal: Stadtwerke Ulm / Neu- Ulm are planning a pumped storage power plant Blautal with an output of 60 MW.
  • Solitudes: pumped storage power plant wastes in Bavaria with a capacity between 100 and 200 MW.
  • Forbach: The energy company EnBW intends to expand cooperation with the city of Baden -Baden, the pumped storage plant in Forbach Rudolf- Fettweis work. The maximum power could be increased from 70 megawatts to 270 megawatts today.
  • Stockpile Sundern in the Ruhr region are Abraumhalde power plants ( plants spoil tip ) planned, initially a pilot plant at the stockpile Sundern in Hamm with 15 MW ( total of up to 200 MW)
  • Heimbach: Stadtwerke Mainz AG plans to the French head ( 618 m) on the Middle Rhine above Niederheimbach the construction of pumped storage power plant " Heimbach memory " with a capacity between 400 and 600 MW.
  • Jochberg: The energy Allianz Bayern plans on Jochberg the pumped storage power plant Jochberg with 700 MW capacity. After five years of planning template: Future / In 4 years, and five years template: Future / In 5 years, building commissioning is 2023Vorlage: Future / done in 5 years.
  • Leinetal: The PSW is Leinetal of Hochtief in Freden with a commissioning 2020Vorlage: planned future / In 5 years, and an output of 200 MW.
  • Lip: Hochtief presented in July 2013 before the preliminary planning for a pumped storage power plant in Mörth in the district of Lippe; planned start 2021Vorlage: Future / In 5 years, scheduled power about 300 MW.
  • Nethe: The pumped storage power plant in Nethe Beverungen and Hoexter with 390 MW.
  • Porta Westfalica: A pumped storage power station underground in Porta Westfalica with a capacity between 100 and 150 MW.
  • Riedl: pumped storage power plant Riedl in Bavaria with a planned maximum power of 300 MW.
  • Rursee: The power company Trianel planned pumped storage power plant on the river Rur Rur Lake (159 million cubic meters) in the Eifel region with a capacity of 640 MW, but has also withdrawn its plans due to local political resistance.
  • Narrow water pumped storage power plant Schmalwasser in the Thuringian Forest ( Thüringer Trianel & remote water supply ) with a planned maximum capacity 1000 MW. In April 2013, the application documents were submitted to the regional planning process.
  • Schweich: Stadtwerke Trier plan the pumped storage power plant Schweich with a capacity of 300 MW, commissioning between 2019Vorlage: Future / In 5 years and 2020Vorlage: Future / In 5 years.
  • Waldeck: The PSW Waldeck II will be expanded by 300 MW, which approval has already been granted.

Austria

Switzerland

Most hydropower plants in Switzerland are designed as storage power plants. The following list includes those works which can also pump. Currently arise in the Swiss Alps several large power plants with underground pipes and engine nacelles.

Norway

Most hydropower plants in Norway are designed as storage power plants. Many of these plants have both an upper and a submarine, so that they could be converted relatively easily into a pumped storage power plant. Listed here are just power plants that are already designed as a pumped storage power plant, or where the application or the expansion to PSKW running.

Belgium

  • Pumped storage power plant Coo -Trois- Ponts in Trois -Ponts, 1164 MW, 1969/1978
  • Pumpspeicherwerk Plate waist in Froidchapelle, 144 MW in 1980

Italy

  • Pumped storage power plant Domenico Cimarosa in Presenzano, 1000 MW in 1991

Luxembourg

  • Vianden Vianden pumped storage plant, 1096 MW in 1964

Poland

  • Pumped storage power plant in Żar Porąbka, 500 MW in 1979
  • Pumped storage power plant on Żarnowiec Żarnowieckie lake, 716 MW in 1983
  • Pumped storage power plant in Żydowo Żydowo, 157 MW in 1971

Slovenia

  • Pumped storage power plant at Kanal ob Soci Avče, 185 MW, 2010

Czechia

  • Pumpspeicherwerk Dlouhe Stráně in Altvatergebirge 650 MW, 1978-1996

Russia

  • Pumped storage power plant Sagorsk, single PSW Russia, 1200 MW/1320 MW in Turbinen-/Pumpbetrieb

Ukraine

  • The Ukrainian utilities Ukrhydroenergo and the Chinese company Sinohydro planning the construction of Kaniv pumped storage power plant with a capacity of 1000 MW. The Dnestr pumped-storage power plant with 2268 MW is under construction and is scheduled to start in 2017.

USA

  • The pumped storage power plant Bath County since 1985 with 3003 MW today the world's most powerful pumped storage plant.
  • Ludington pumped storage plant, 1872 MW
  • Raccoon Mountain pumped storage plant, 1600 MW
  • Helms pumped storage plant in Fresno County, California, 1,212 MW

China

The largest pumped-storage power plants in China are:

  • Huizhou Pumped Storage Power Plant 2448 MW
  • Pumped storage power plant Tianhuangping 1836 MW
  • Mingtan Dam ( Taiwan) 1600 MW
  • Guangdong Pumped Storage Power Plant currently 1200 MW, 2400 MW planned

Japan

The largest pumped storage power plants in Japan are:

  • Pumped storage power station Shin- Takasegawa 1280 MW
  • Kannagawa pumped storage power plant currently planned 470 MW expansion to 2820 MW

Seawater pumped-storage power plants

  • In Japan: Seawater Pumped Storage Power Plant Okinawa Yanbaru in Motobu, Okinawa
  • Hawaii, USA: Koko Crater, Oahu
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