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What is a pumped storage power station?

Their special feature: They are an energy store and a hydroelectric power plant in one. If there is a surplus of power in the grid, the pumped storage power station switches to pumping mode – an electric motor drives the pump turbines, which pumps water from a lower reservoir to a higher storage basin.

What is pumped storage hydropower (PSH)?

Pumped storage hydropower (PSH) is a type of hydroelectric energy storage. It is a configuration of two water reservoirs at different elevations that can generate power as water moves down from one to the other (discharge), passing through a turbine. The system also requires power as it pumps water back into the upper reservoir (recharge).

What is pumped storage?

The water flows into the lower basin. Pumped storage is economically and environmentally the most developed form of storing energy during base-load phases while making this energy available to the grid for peaking supply needs and system regulation. Voith has delivered this technology since its inception.

How pumped storage power plants work?

The principle behind the operation of pumped storage power plants is both simple and ingenious. Their special feature: They are an energy store and a hydroelectric power plant in one.

What is a closed-loop pumped storage hydropower system?

With closed-loop PSH, reservoirs are not connected to an outside body of water. Open-loop pumped storage hydropower systems connect a reservoir to a naturally flowing water feature via a tunnel, using a turbine/pump and generator/motor to move water and create electricity.

Are pumped storage facilities a viable solution for multi-functional power plants?

As multi-functional power plants, pumped storage facilities have a high potential to meet this challenge, because their technology is based on the only long-term, technically proven and cost-effective form of storing energy on a large scale, thereby making it available at short notice.