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Country Pumping Capacity Maximum time of full load operation Germany 195 MW 9 hours Slovenia 200 MW 4 hours Cyprus 190 MW 11 hours Lithuania 250 MW 51 hours Sweden 250 MW Norway 445 MW Estonia 500 MW 15 hours Hungary 600 MW Poland 750 MW 6 hours Greece 864 MW Ireland 920 MW 10 hours Portugal 1,080 MW 38 hours Slovakia 1,700 MW Spain 1,885 MW 22 hours Switzerland 1,900 MW Austria 3,075 MW 47 hours France 3,000 MW Turkey 3,200 MW 7 hours Total 19,304 MW Table 2 Total pump capacity and maximum time of full-load operation of the pumped storage power plants in early planning stage Source: EURELECTRIC 27 ; NREAP for France These numbers show that technical feasibility is definitely not limiting the development of more flexible generation capacity from hydropower. Chapter 4 will highlight some of the major policy challenges which stand in the way of fully developing the storage capacities required by the integration of more v-RES in the European system. This chapter has clearly highlighted the difficulties of assessing the storage functions of individual power plants and entire countries. Battery functions cannot be expressed and compared with a single number since capacity must be seen in relation with time (i.e. the actual availability of the maximum capacity). Moreover, many pumped storage power plants in mountainous regions are integrated into complex, pre-existing hydro storage systems with natural inflows. Data on such systems is not always reported in a consistent way. We also insist on the point that capacity can be increased manifold, beyond new projects, in upgrading existing plants. Overall, current data collection procedures – and therefore also currently available data – do not sufficiently account for these complexities. Thus there is clearly a need to improve and harmonise hydropower data collection on an European level (see also policy recommendations in Chapter 6). There is no data available on hydrostorage with no pump storage. Insufficient data on hydro, as was outlined already in the beginning 27 EURELECTRIC questionnaire for the assessment of the potential of pumped storage power stations in Europe 20
of this chapter, make this work work in progress, and we welcome all comments and contributions to this first data gathering. 21
Page 1 and 2: Hydro in Europe: Powering Renewable
Page 3 and 4: The Union of the Electricity Indust
Page 5 and 6: TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION..
Page 7 and 8: 1. INTRODUCTION Hydropower is a mat
Page 9 and 10: Chapter 3 outlines the basic charac
Page 11 and 12: Actual generation in 2009, TWh 140
Page 13 and 14: Currently installed pumped storage
Page 15 and 16: 2.3. Pumped storage as the battery
Page 17 and 18: GWh 10000 1000 100 10 1 1 2 4 6 7 8
Page 19: limited capacities and are often di
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
Page 39 and 40: Even though the permit process fore
Page 41 and 42: over 50 valleys along the west coas
Page 43 and 44: Fig. 15: Hydropower in the power ge
Page 45 and 46: Fig. 17 Greenhouse Gas Emissions pe
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
Page 53 and 54: and for the development of strategi
Page 55 and 56: o share existing communication mate
Page 57 and 58: As a mature technology, pumped stor
Page 59 and 60: 5. Hydropower is the only large-sca
Page 61 and 62: More must be done NOW to fully expl
Page 63 and 64: Glossary Ancillary services Service
Page 65 and 66: Annex 1 Methodological consideratio

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