List of pumped storage power plants
This list of pumped storage power plants contains both operating and planned pumped storage power plants . It does not claim to be complete.
Largest pumped storage power plants worldwide
The following table shows a selection of the worldwide pumped storage power plants with a nominal output of equal to or more than 1 GW (1,000 MW).
Pumped storage power plants in individual countries
Germany
In Germany , a pumped storage power of about 7 GW (gigawatts) is installed. The storage capacities are sufficient for 4–8 hours of continuous operation every day. This resulted in a total storage capacity of around 40 GWh in 2010. In 2006, the German pumped storage power plants generated 4,042 GWh of electrical energy. This contrasted with a pumping work of 5,829 GWh, so that the average efficiency was around 70%.
The Vianden pumped storage plant on the dammed up German-Luxembourg border river Our is listed in this article under “Luxembourg”, although it is connected to the European network in Germany and the plant is also listed in the power plant list of the German Federal Network Agency.
| rank | Surname | state |
Power in MW |
Storage size in MWh |
Construction time, commissioning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Goldisthal pumped storage plant | Thuringia | 1,060.0 | 8,480 | 2003 |
| 2 | Markersbach pumped storage plant | Saxony | 1,050.0 | 4.018 | 1970-1981 / 1979 |
| 3 | Schluchseewerk : Wehr power plant | Baden-Württemberg | 980.0 | 6,073 | 1975 |
| 4th | Waldeck II pumped storage plant | Hesse | 480.0 | 3,428 | 1969-1974 |
| 5 | Schluchseewerk : Bad Säckingen underground power station | Baden-Württemberg | 370.0 | 2,064 | 1967 |
| 6th | Hohenwarte II pumped storage plant | Thuringia | 320.0 | 2,087 | 1956/1963, 1966 in operation |
| 7th | Erzhausen an der Leine pumped storage plant | Lower Saxony | 220.0 | 1100 | 1964 |
| 8th | Schluchseewerk : Witznau power plant | Baden-Württemberg | 220.0 | 626 | 1939–1950 (complete commissioning in 1950) |
| 9 | Happurg pumped storage power plant near Nuremberg | Bavaria | 160.0 | 900 | 1956-1958; not in operation since 2011, refurbishment or permanent shutdown |
| 10 | Schluchseewerk : Waldshut power plant | Baden-Württemberg | 160.0 | 402 | 1951-2011 |
| 11 | Langenprozelten pumped storage power plant near Gemünden am Main (Franconia) | Bavaria | 160.0 | 950 | 1976; important peak load power plant in the traction current network |
| 12 | Herdecke PSP | North Rhine-Westphalia | 153.0 | 590 | 1989 |
| 13 | Waldeck I pumped storage plant | Hesse | 140.0 | 478 | 1933 |
| 14th | Rönkhausen pumped storage plant in Finnentrop | North Rhine-Westphalia | 140.0 | 735 | 1969 |
| 15th |
Jansen an der Pfreimd power plant group with 25.2 MW Tanzmühle pumped storage plant Reisach 98.3 MW pumped storage plant and Trausnitz compensation plant |
Bavaria | 135.0 | 404 | 1951-1961 |
| 16 | Niederwartha pumped storage plant in Dresden | Saxony | 120.0 | 591 | 1930 |
| 17th | Geesthacht pumped storage power plant | Schleswig-Holstein | 120.0 | 600 | 1958 |
| 18th | Schluchseewerk : power plant houses | Baden-Württemberg | 90.0 | 463 | 1931 |
| 19th | Glems pumped storage plant in Metzingen-Glems | Baden-Württemberg | 90.0 | 560 | 1964-1969 |
| 20th | Bleiloch pumped storage plant | Thuringia | 80.0 | 753 | 1926-1932 |
| 21st | Wendefurth pumped storage plant (Harz) | Saxony-Anhalt | 80.0 | 523 | 1967 |
| 22nd | Hohenwarte I pumped storage plant | Thuringia | 62.8 | 795 | 1936–1942/1959 |
| 23 | Leitzachwerk I (new) | Bavaria | 49.0 | 550 | 1983 (previously "I old" 24 MW from 1929) |
| 24 | Leitzachwerk II | Bavaria | 44.0 | 550 | 1960 |
| 25th | Schwarzenbach power plant in Forbach | Baden-Württemberg | 44.0 | 198 | 1926 |
| 26th | Rusel power plants (pump storage plants Oberberg I and II) in Deggendorf | Bavaria | 14 (plus 25 thermal) |
? | 1957/1986 |
| 27 | Sorpe power plant | North Rhine-Westphalia | 7.44 | ? | 1926-1935 |
| 28 | Dhrontalsperre (Dhronkraftwerk) | Rhineland-Palatinate | 6.18 | ? | 1913/1956 (since 1995 only storage power plant ) |
| 29 | Oberstdorf Warmatsgund pumped storage power plant | Bavaria | 4.72 | 22nd | 1992 (Since running running water is more lucrative, the power plant is no longer operated as a pumped storage facility.) |
| 30th | Wisenta pumped storage plant | Thuringia | 3.3 | ? | 1933-1939 |
| 31 | Nidder power plant | Hesse | 2.3 | ? | 1923 (since 1978 storage power plant ) |
| 32 | Mittweida pumped storage plant | Saxony | 1.7 | ? | 1926/1928 (out of service) |
| 33 | Höllbach power plants | Bavaria | 1.5 | ? | 1909/1961 |
| 34 | Kirchentellinsfurt hydropower plant (Einsiedel district) | Baden-Württemberg | 1.3 | 6th | 1926 |
| 35 | Kanzem power plant | Rhineland-Palatinate | 1.2 (2.3) | ? | 1986 |
| 36 | Eibele power plant / Plant III | Bavaria | 0.65 | 1.5 (?) | 1958–61 built as a pumped storage power plant and expanded in 1971; today only used as a run-of-river power station. |
| Total output (without Mittweida) | Germany | approx. 6,565 | approx. 37700 | ~ 2005 |
Further systems can be found in individual lists. However, they are only storage or run-of-river power plants. This includes the Eibele / Plant III power plant with 0.65 MW in Bavaria, which was built in 1958/61 as a pumped storage power plant and expanded in 1971; today it is only used as a run-of-river power station.
Planning
- Einöden: Pumped storage power plant Einöden in Bavaria with an output between 100 and 200 MW.
- Ellrich: The Ellrich pumped storage power plant with 640 MW is being planned by the Strabag construction company in the Thuringian Slate Mountains / southern Harz .
- Forbach: The energy company EnBW wants to expand the Forbach pumped storage plant in the Rudolf-Fettweis plant together with the city of Baden-Baden . The maximum output could be increased from 70 megawatts today to 270 megawatts.
- Sundern dump: spoil tip plants are planned in the Ruhr area, initially a pilot plant on the Sundern dump in Hamm with 15 MW (up to 200 MW in total)
- Heimbach: The public utilities Mainz AG plans on Franzosenkopf ( 618 m ) on the central Rhine above Niederheimbach the construction of pumped storage power plant "Heimbach memory" with an output between 400 and 600 MW.
- Hainleite: The Hainleite pumped storage power plant with up to 500 MW is being planned in Thuringia by PSW Hainleite GmbH, a subsidiary of the Hochtief construction company .
- Leinetal: The PSW Leinetal is planned by Hochtief bei Freden with commissioning in 2020 and an output of 200 MW.
- Porta Westfalica: An underground pumped storage power plant in Porta Westfalica with an output between 100 and 150 MW.
- Riedl: Riedl pumped storage power plant in Bavaria with a planned maximum output of 300 MW.
- Schweich: The Stadtwerke Trier plan the pumped storage power station Schweich with a capacity of 300 MW.
- Waldeck: The PSW Waldeck II is to be expanded by 300 MW, the permit has already been granted.
Abandoned projects
- Atdorf: Atdorf pumped storage power plant in the Hotzenwald (Schluchseewerke AG). If completed on schedule in 2018, it would have been the largest in Europe with a maximum output of 1400 MW. The two basins with a height difference of 600 m are to have a storage volume of 9 to 10 million cubic meters. This corresponds to a working capacity of approx. 13 GWh.
- Blautal: The Stadtwerke Ulm / Neu-Ulm planned a pumped storage power plant Blautal with a capacity of 60 MW and a storage capacity of 370 MWh net. The project was abandoned in 2016.
- Bremm: Bremm pumped storage plant with 1300 MW, planned by RWE from the end of the 1960s in the southern Eifel ; 1991 was the background of the script for the legendary crime scene: Tod im Häcksler ; In 2012, the Rhineland-Palatinate Greens revived the 40-year-old plans as part of the energy transition .
- Jochberg: The Energy Alliance Bayern plans on jochberg the pumped storage power plant jochberg with 700 MW. After five years of planning [out of date] and five years of construction, commissioning is scheduled for 2023 .
- Lippe: In July 2013, Hochtief presented the first plans for a pumped storage plant in Mörth in the Lippe district; planned commissioning in 2021, planned output about 300 MW. In July 2015 the planning work will be stopped due to inefficiency.
- Nethe: The Nethe pumped storage power plant in Beverungen and Höxter with 390 MW.
- Rursee: The energy supply company Trianel planned the Rur am Rursee pumped storage power plant (159 million cubic meters) in the Eifel with an output of 640 MW, but also withdrew its plans due to local political resistance.
- Schleicherberg: Schleicherberg pumped storage power plant with 700 MW, projected by RWE on the Moselle from the end of the 1960s ;
- Schmalwasser: Schmalwasser pumped storage power plant in the Thuringian Forest ( Trianel & Thüringer Fernwasserversorgung ) with a planned maximum output of 1000 MW. In April 2013, the application documents for the regional planning procedure were submitted. In July 2018 the project was stopped because of the high costs.
Austria
| rank | Surname |
Power in MW |
Standard energy in million kWh / year |
Occupancy in% |
Raw height of fall |
Design flow in m / s |
completion position |
federal country |
operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malta main level | 730.0 | 715.0 | 11 | 1106 | 80.0 | 1979 | Carinthia | Austrian Hydro Power AG |
| 2 | Silz | 500.0 | 495.3 | 11 | 1258 | 48.0 | 1981 | Tyrol | Tiroler Wasserkraft AG |
| 3 | Limberg II | 480.0 | - | - | 346 | 144.0 | 2012 | Salzburg | Austrian Hydro Power AG |
| 4th | Kopswerk II | 450.0 | - | - | 800 | - | 2008 | Vorarlberg | illwerke vkw AG |
| 5 | Reisseck II | 430.0 | - | - | 595 | 80.0 | 2015 | Carinthia | Austrian Hydro Power AG |
| 6th | Houseling | 360.0 | 179.4 | 6th | 696 | 65.0 | 1988 | Tyrol | Austrian Hydro Power AG |
| 7th | Rodundwerk II | 276.0 | 486.0 | 20th | 354 | 87.0 | 1976 | Vorarlberg | illwerke vkw AG |
| 8th | Lünerseewerk | 232.0 | 371.0 | 18th | 974 | 27.6 | 1958 | Vorarlberg | illwerke vkw AG |
| 9 | Rosshag | 231.0 | 312.0 | 15th | 630 | 52.0 | 1972 | Tyrol | Austrian Hydro Power AG |
| 10 | Obervermuntwerk II | 200 | 2019 | Vorarlberg | illwerke vkw AG | ||||
| 11 | Rodundwerk I | 198.0 | 322.0 | 19th | 780 | 36.0 | 1952 | Vorarlberg | illwerke vkw AG |
The Forstsee power plant , built in 1925 as the first storage power plant in Carinthia, was historically operated from 1928–1983 as a pumped storage power plant in the summer.
Switzerland
Most of the hydropower plants in Switzerland are designed as storage power plants. The following list contains those plants that can also pump. Several large power plants with underground lines and machine houses are currently being built in the Swiss Alps.
| rank | Surname | Location ( canton ) |
Production expectation in GWh / year |
Pump power in MW |
Turbine output in MW |
operator | completion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ferrera 1 | Grisons | 308 | 180 | 180 | Hinterrhein power plants | 1962 |
| 2 | Etzelwerk Altendorf | Schwyz | 253 | 121 | 135 | Etzelwerk | 1937 |
| 3 | Mapragg | St. Gallen | 176 | 274 | 280 | Sarganserland power plants | 1977 |
| 4th | Veytaux | Vaud | 160 | 420 | 420 | Forces Motrices Hongrin-Léman | 2015 |
| 5 | Châtelard-Barberine 1 + 2 | Valais | 155 | 98 | 112 | Swiss Federal Railways | 1923 |
| 6th | Mottec | Valais | 135 | 69 | 71 | Gougra power plants | 1958 |
| 7th | Munching | Valais | 133 | 74 | 74 | Mattmark power plants | 1966 |
| 8th | Ova spin | Grisons | 87 | 47 | 54 | Engadine power plants | 1970 |
| 9 | Peccia (Sambuco) | Ticino | 85 | 44 | 54 | Maggia power plants | 1955 |
| 10 | Rempen | Schwyz | 60 | 60 | 66 | Wägital power plant | 1926 |
| 11 | Handeck 3 (Isogyre) | Bern | 39 | 55 | 55 | Oberhasli power plants | 1976 |
| 12 | Robiei | Ticino | 30th | 165 | 192 | Maggia power plants | 1968 |
| 13 | Oberems (Argessa) | Valais | 15th | 7th | 8th | Argessa | 1926 |
| 14th | Nant de Drance | Valais | 9 | 900 | 900 | Nant de Drance | 2019 |
| 15th | PSW Limmern | Glarus | 8th | 1000 | 1000 | Linth-Limmern power plants | 2016 |
| 14th | Bortelalp | Valais | 6th | 2 | 2 | EnBAG | 1990 |
Norway
Norway has around 1250 hydropower plants, the vast majority of which are storage power plants without a pumping function. Many of these power plants have both an upper and a lower lake, so that they could be converted into a pumped storage power plant with relatively little effort. Only those power plants are listed that are already designed as pumped storage power plants or where the application for or expansion to PSP is in progress.
| rank | Surname |
Power in MW |
Pump power in MW |
Storage capacity in GWh |
Electricity production in GWh / year |
Construction time, commissioning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kvilldal power station | 1,240 | 326 | 4,500 (for all Ulla-Førre power plants) | ||
| 2 | Tonstad power plant | 960 | 960 (not yet installed) | 3,800 | 1968 | |
| 3 | Saurdal power station | 640 | 320 | 1968 |
France
- Grand-Maison , 1800 MW
- Revin pumped storage power plant , 800 MW
Belgium
- Coo-Trois-Ponts pumped storage power plant in Trois-Ponts , 1164 MW, 1969/1978
- Plate-Taille pumped storage plant in Froidchapelle , 144 MW, 1980
Italy
- Capriati pumped storage power plant , 113 MW, 1966
- Domenico Cimarosa pumped storage power plant , 1000 MW, 1991
- Edolo pumped storage power plant , 1000 MW, 1984
- Entracque pumped storage power plant , 1320 MW, 1982
Croatia
- Velebit pumped storage power plant , 276/240 MW, 1984
Luxembourg
- Vianden pumped storage plant in Vianden , 1290 MW, 1964
Poland
- Żar pumped storage power plant in Porąbka , 500 MW, 1979
- Żarnowiec pumped storage power plant on Lake Zarnowitz , 716 MW, 1983
- Żydowo pumped storage power plant near Żydowo , 157 MW, 1971
Slovakia
- Čierny Váh pumped storage power plant , 735.16 MW, 2010
Slovenia
- Avče pumped storage power plant near the Soči Canal , 185 MW, 2010
Czech Republic
- Pumped storage plant Dlouhé Stráně in Jeseníky 650 MW, 1978-1996
- Dalešice pumped storage plant between the Dalešice and Mohelno reservoirs on the Jihlava, 450 MW, 1978
- Štěchovice II pumped storage plant between the Homole and Štěchovice reservoirs on the Vltava, 45 MW, 1948
- Pump storage plant Černé jezero , on the Úhlava in the Bohemian Forest , 1.9 MW, 1930
Ukraine
- The Ukrainian energy supplier Ukrhydroenergo and the Chinese group Sinohydro are planning to build the Kaniv pumped storage power plant with an output of 1000 MW. The Dniester pumped storage power plant with 2268 MW is under construction and should go into operation by 2017.
United States
- The Bath County Pumped Storage Station is the world's most powerful pumped storage power plant since 1985 with today 3003 MW.
- Ludington Pumped Storage Power Station , 1872 MW
- Raccoon Mountain Pumped Storage Plant , 1600 MW
- Helms Pumped Storage Plant in Fresno County, California, 1212 MW
China
In China u. a. the following pumped storage power plants under construction or in operation:
- Fengning pumped storage power plant 3600 MW; currently under construction
- Guangdong pumped storage power plant 2400 MW
- Huizhou pumped storage power plant 2448 MW
- Tianhuangping pumped storage power plant 1836 MW
Japan
The largest pumped storage power plants in Japan are:
- Shin-Takasegawa pumped storage power plant 1280 MW
- Kannagawa pumped storage power plant currently 470 MW, expansion to 2820 MW planned
Seawater pumped storage power plants
- in Japan : Okinawa Yanbaru seawater pumped storage power plant in Kunigami , Okinawa
- in Hawaii , USA: Koko Crater, Oahu
Web links
Commons : Pumped Storage Power Plants - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
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- ^ Bad Creek Pumped Hydro Storage. In: Energy Storage Exchange. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
- ^ A b Pumped Storage in Bath County. Retrieved March 26, 2019 .
- ^ Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project. In: Energy Storage Exchange. Retrieved March 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Free State of Thuringia (ed.): Pumped storage cadastre Thuringia . 2011, p. 12 , table 3 ( thueringen.de [PDF]).
- ↑ Goldisthal pumped storage plant (PSW). (PDF) German Energy Storage Association (BVES), July 2016 .
- ↑ German Advisory Council on Environmental Issues (2010): 100% renewable electricity supply by 2050: climate-friendly, safe, affordable ( Memento of October 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 3.6 MB) a: p.59, last accessed on 20. Sept 2010
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- ↑ Volker Quaschning , Regenerative Energy Systems. Technology - calculation - simulation. Munich 2013, p. 319.
- ↑ Power storage in comparison: an infrastructure for the energy transition. wind-turbine.com, February 4, 2016, accessed January 31, 2017 .
- ↑ LokalPlus: Modernization of the upper basin successfully completed - Mark-E pumped storage power plant in Rönkhausen. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Warmatsgund hydroelectric power station
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- ↑ a b c Bjarne Steffen: Prospects for Pumped-Hydro Storage in Germany , EWL Duisburg 12/2011 (PDF file 364 kB)
- ↑ RWE and RAG are planning green electricity power plants on coal heaps. November 23, 2010, accessed November 9, 2011 .
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- ↑ EnBW is reorganizing the priority of storage projects: The Atdorf pumped storage project will not be pursued any further
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- ↑ Stadtwerke are not building the Blautal pumped storage power plant ( memento from July 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), press release on the operator's website from July 6, 2016, accessed on July 18, 2016.
- ↑ Jochberg pumped storage power plant. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 7, 2013 ; accessed on May 21, 2017 .
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- ↑ Trianel water storage power plant projects in North Rhine-Westphalia and Thuringia reach milestone . Trianel press release of December 16, 2011. Accessed December 17, 2011.
- ↑ Trianel planned a pumped storage power plant on the Rursee .
- ↑ No pumped storage power plant in the Eifel ( Memento from June 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) WDR from June 21, 2013
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- ↑ Federal Office for Energy SFOE (Ed.): Statistics of the hydropower plants in Switzerland . January 1, 2018 ( admin.ch - system numbers 600100 and 600200). Statistics of the hydropower plants in Switzerland ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ PSW Linth-Limmern. Retrieved February 22, 2017 .
- ↑ renewablesb2b.com: "In years with normal rainfall, the approximately 1250 Norwegian hydropower plants produce an average of 126.6 TWh per year (2000–2010).", Accessed on May 1, 2014
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