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Originally Posted by nomadking
We don't have the same geography as Norway. You still need the geography for a reservoir at the bottom. We have 200 hydro-electric plants, but all they can summon up at the moment is 0.08GW.
Pumped storage still needs night-time gas generated electricity, so where's the savings? If there are upper limits to generating capacity, then you are just bringing forward the time of the gas-generated electricity.
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Actually pumped storage hydro operates on whatever electricity is in the system at point of need. This is as likely to be wind as anything else as base load is fairly predictable overnight and gas powered plants can be wound down.