by georgejetson | Mar 6, 2020 | Pumped hydro storage, Storage
Narratives and framing are an essential part of political story telling. Snowy 2.0, Australia’s proposed pumped hydro project, is building on the “nation building” narrative of the original Snowy 1.0, and being framed as a universal solution to wind and solar...
by Graham Palmer | Feb 16, 2020 | Electricity, Energy, EROI, Hydrogen, Oil, Pumped hydro storage, Storage
This is my first post for over a year, and I’m planning on following up with several more posts in the near future. I’ve been working on several projects, including my project engineering role in manufacturing, research projects on hydrogen and a book on...
by Graham Palmer | Mar 19, 2017 | Electricity, Pumped hydro storage
A pumped hydro primer Nearly all electrical storage to date has been pumped hydro storage (PHS), which makes up 97% or 142 GW of global power capacity for electrical storage. The three leading PHS countries are Japan with 26 GW, China at 24 GW and the US at 22 GW. The...
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