Pumped Storage: A battery with a promising potential

Even though most people are familiar with the basics of conventional hydro, pumped storage is still a quite unfamiliar concept which provides solutions to some of the vital problems faced in the general power systems. One of the important usages of pumped storage comes in to play in matching constantly-changing supply from power producers with constantly-changing demand of power consumers by acting as a facility that can supply extra power when demand increases by taking in extra power when supply stays high while demand drops. Other than that, it is also considered as the largest capacity form of grid energy storage available, providing a large scale energy storage option for intermittent power sources. These points would be discussed extensively...

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