Hydroelectric stations that pump water uphill when power is cheap and release it through turbines when power is needed, including the Bath County station in Virginia, the Dinorwig station in Wales and the Fengning station in China. A facility belongs here when its cited article describes a pumped storage station. It excludes battery plants and conventional dams. A pumped storage station acts like a very large battery for the grid, and a station is placed here by its cited article describing it as a pumped storage hydroelectric station with upper and lower reservoirs.
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Bath County Pumped Storage Station (Wikipedia)
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The Bath County Pumped Storage Station is a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant with a maximum generation capacity of 3,003 MW, an average of 2,772 MW, and a total storage capacity of 24,000 MWh.
Dinorwig Power Station (Wikipedia)
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The Dinorwig Power Station (Welsh: Gorsaf Bŵer Dinorwig, pronounced [dɪˈnɔrwɪɡ]), known locally as Electric Mountain, or Mynydd Gwefru, is a pumped-storage hydroelectric scheme, near Dinorwig, Llanberis in Snowdonia national park in Gwynedd, north Wales.
Fengning Pumped Storage Power Station (Wikipedia)
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The Fengning Pumped Storage Power Station (Chinese: 丰宁抽水蓄能电站) is a pumped-storage hydroelectric power station about 145 km (90 mi) northwest of Chengde in Fengning Manchu Autonomous County of Hebei Province, China.
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