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> "They're installing 1GW per month of pumped hydro storage," Mr Buckley said.

Fun fact, pumped hydro was actually developed for nuclear originally in the 70s, since nuclear is a large source of power that is hard to ramp down during low demand periods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power...



Err, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlewood_Lake was completed in 1928 (for electrical demand regulation.) Much older than nuclear...


My bad. It's still notable that the sixth largest one in the world was still developed for nuclear plants.


Which is kind of funny as they where storing energy from a hydroelectric power plant, so building a larger dam would have been way more energy efficient.


Connecticut isn’t very elevated so a dam at a higher level may not have been very practical.




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