Jocassee pumped storage power plant

Jocassee pumped storage power plant
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location
Coordinates	34 ° 57 '35 "  N , 82 ° 54' 53"  W Coordinates: 34 ° 57 '35 "  N , 82 ° 54' 53"  W.
country	United States
power plant
owner	Duke Energy
Start of operation	1973
technology
Bottleneck performance	710 megawatts
Standard work capacity	811 million kWh / year
Turbines	4th
Generators	4th
Others

The pumped storage power plant Jocassee ( English Jocassee Hydroelectric Station ) from Duke Energy is located in Pickens County of the US state of South Carolina . The four machine sets of the power plant, which went into operation in 1973, have a combined output of 710  megawatts . Lake Jocassee serves as the upper basin and Lake Keowee as the lower basin . On average, the power plant produces 811  gigawatt hours (GWh) of electrical energy annually, 988 GWh for storage.

Location of the power plant between Lake Jocassee and Lake Keowee

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Jocassee. (No longer available online.) Duke Energy Corporation, archived from the original on October 31, 2007 ; accessed on May 24, 2014 . 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.   
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jocassee Pumped Hydro Storage. In: DOE Global Energy Storage Database. Sandia National Laboratories , April 26, 2013, accessed May 24, 2014 . 
3. ^ Pumped Storage Plants in the USA. industcards, January 28, 2014, accessed on May 24, 2014 (English).