Environmental and geographic constraints shape global pumped hydroelectric storage for long-duration energy storage
20 May 2026 at 00:00
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Energy Environ. Sci., 2026, 19,3804-3822
DOI: 10.1039/D6EE01331G, Paper
DOI: 10.1039/D6EE01331G, Paper
Rongrong Xu, Zhenzhong Zeng, Alan D. Ziegler, Lee E. Brown, Joseph Holden, Dominick V. Spracklen, Deliang Chen, Yuntian Chen, Tianyun Dong, Yaling Zeng, Peirong Lin, Yuan Yang, Ming Pan, Dongxiao Zhang
A global bottom-up assessment identifies 18.82 Β± 2.66 PWh of viable pumped hydroelectric storage, showing that PHS remains cost-effective for discharge durations longer than four hours under future energy storage technology cost scenarios.
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A global bottom-up assessment identifies 18.82 Β± 2.66 PWh of viable pumped hydroelectric storage, showing that PHS remains cost-effective for discharge durations longer than four hours under future energy storage technology cost scenarios.
The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry