Comment on California Replaces Gas Plant with Giant, Billion-Dollar Grid Battery
blandfordforever@lemm.ee 2 months agoIn a package the size of only 12,300 elephants!
Comment on California Replaces Gas Plant with Giant, Billion-Dollar Grid Battery
blandfordforever@lemm.ee 2 months agoIn a package the size of only 12,300 elephants!
antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
It’s actually pretty incredible. About 8 years ago SMUD cancelled their Iowa Hill pumped storage project. The stats are pretty comparable to this one, except for physical size! About $1B, 400 MW, 4,800 MWh of storage, by pumping 6400 acre feet of water 1200 feet uphill (7.9 million cubic meters of water 365 meters uphill).