News

• 5/2/2023: A New Hydropower Boom Uses Pumped Storage, Not Giant Dams - The New York Times

• 12/29/2022: The ‘Sleeping Giant Of Energy Storage’ Is Waking Up

• 4/19/2021: This century-old technology could be the key to unlocking America’s renewable energy future

• 8/2/2019: Hearing takes comment on Mineville Energy Storage Project

• 6/19/2019: US FERC Issues Draft EIS for 240 MW Mineville Energy Storage Project

• 1/20/2017: Storing Energy in an Old Mine (with a radio recording)

• 12/18/2016: Hydroelectric Engineers Find Energy Potential in Centuries-old New York Mine

• 4/15/2015: Developers: Underground Hydropower is Coming to Essex County

• 4/1/2015: FERC receives license application for 260 MW Mineville underground pumped storage project

• 3/29/2015: Moriah Hydro Project Proceeds

• 12/28/2013: Energy storage project eyed for old Adirondack mine

• 10/11/2013: Old Iron Mine Repurposed For New Pumped Storage Hydroelectricity

• 10/7/2013: FERC license sought for 260-MW pumped storage project in NY

Resources

Academic Papers

• Abandoned Mine Voids for Pumped Storage Hydro A new technology of pumped-storage power in underground coal mine: Principles, present situation and future

• Can pumped-storage power in underground coal mine reduce carbon emissions?  

Department of Energy

• DOE Water Power Technologies Office page on Pumped Storage

• Video: What is Pumped-Storage Hydropower? 

• HydroWIRES Initiative

• Pumped Storage Hydropower: A Key Part of Our Clean Energy Future | Department of Energy

FERC

• Pumped Storage Project List

Argonne National Laboratory

Energy Storage Association

National Hydropower Association