Charting Hydropower's Role in the Next-Generation Grid

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Charting Hydropower's Role in the Next-Generation Grid

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To build a 100% clean energy power sector, the United States is adding more energy storage and variable renewable energy sources, like solar power and wind energy, to the grid. Hydropower and pumped storage hydropower (PSH) can help with both. These technologies already play a key role in providing flexible, low-carbon electricity to the U.S. power grid, and this role will become even more valuable as that grid evolves. That's why researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are analyzing how the U.S. electricity sector could invest in hydropower and PSH using new data and modeling capabilities.

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2022-09-27. Charting Hydropower's Role in the Next-Generation Grid. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1890745

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