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Pumping Capacity [MW] 100000 10000 1000 100 10 1 16 Cyprus Slovakia Slovenia Norway Estonia Hungary Bulgaria Belgium Luxembourg Czech Republic Lithuania Ireland Greece Poland Turkey Portugal UK Switzerland Austria Germany France Spain Existing PSPPs Licenced PSPPs Planned PSPPs Fig. 7 Installed pumped storage capacities, licensed pumped storage capacities and capacities of pumped storage projects in early planning stage (LOGARITHMIC SCALE), MW Source: EURELECTRIC 18 The following analysis is based on the data received from the EURELECTRIC questionnaire 19 , completed with additional information from the Internet, where data gaps could be filled 20 . The major obstacle in providing a truly European outlook lies in some countries not communicating their plant-specific data due to confidentiality concerns or difficulties in collecting and projecting the data. This is especially the case for data on pumped storage power plants in an early planning stage. No general assumptions can be made to fill in the missing data since pumped storage plants have very different, site-specific characteristics. Contribution of existing pumped storage power plants Information on available pumping capacity (as shown in Figure 7) is not sufficient to assess the battery function of countries or of individual pumped storage power plants. Capacity has to be related to energy. Figure 8 shows on a logarithmic scale for each country the total amount of energy that can currently be stored in one “ideal” pumping cycle 21 . Data is missing for Italy, Romania and Sweden. The figure on the top of each bar indicates this amount for each country. 18 EURELECTRIC questionnaire for the assessment of the potential of pumped storage power stations in Europe 19 ibid. 20 Additional information was used to calculate the battery function of France, Switzerland and the UK. 21 An ideal pumping cycle is defined as follows: all the upper reservoirs are empty, the lower reservoirs are full and water is pumped up with maximum capacity until either the upper reservoir is full (no more reception capacity) or the lower reservoir is empty (no more ejection capacity).
GWh 10000 1000 100 10 1 1 2 4 6 7 8 17 11 21 33 39 49 107 125 184 369 Bulgaria Ireland Slovakia Luxembourg Czech Republic Belgium Poland Greece UK Germany Lithuania Portugal Austria France Switzerland Spain Fig. 8 Total amount of electricity (logarithmic scale) that can currently be stored in one ideal pumping cycle. Source: EURELECTRIC 22 Spain can currently store by far the highest amount of excess electricity (1,530 GWh in 17 pumped storage power plants), followed by the alpine countries Switzerland (369 GWh in 16 pumped storage power plants), France (184 GWh in 9 pumped storage power plants) and Austria (125 GWh in 15 pumped storage power plants). The 16 countries for which data is available (see Figure 8) can together store a total of 2.5 TWh in one ideal pumping cycle. Obviously, the duration of a cycle differs between power plants and this temporal dimension is another essential characteristic of the battery function of pumped storage power plants. However, it cannot be realistically expressed in and compared with a single parameter (the amount of energy uptake is always dependent on time). Since plant-specific information is not available for most EURELECTRIC countries, the temporal availability of the European-wide storage function cannot be unequivocally reported here. Plant-specific data is available for Austria, France, the United Kingdom, Spain and Switzerland and the pumped storage functions of these countries is represented in Figure 9. The surfaces below the graphs represent the total amount of electricity (MWh) that can be stored. 22 EURELECTRIC questionnaire for the assessment of the potential of pumped storage power stations in Europe 1530
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Page 5 and 6: TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION..
Page 7 and 8: 1. INTRODUCTION Hydropower is a mat
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Page 23 and 24: output increases every morning and
Page 25 and 26: plants are designed to use either a
Page 27 and 28: There are two types of storage hydr
Page 29 and 30: Fig. 13 Illustration of the operati
Page 31 and 32: Pumped storage facilities work as a
Page 33 and 34: Table 4 highlights some advantages
Page 35 and 36: the NORDEL system and to connection
Page 37 and 38: - controlling reactive power motion
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Page 41 and 42: over 50 valleys along the west coas
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Page 47 and 48: BOX 1 - FRANCE - A HYDROPOWER PROJE
Page 49 and 50: The long life span of a hydro plant
Page 51 and 52: Plans (NREAPs), drawn by the member
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