The cornerstone of the eStorage project – being run by French power group Alstom; Belgian transmission system operator Elia; French utility EDF, UK university Imperial College; Norwegian certification body DNV Kema; and French management consultancy Algoé – will be upgrading Le Cheylas pumped-storage hydroelectric plant to handle “several hundred megawatts” of incoming renewable generation.
The consortium will also develop solutions using advanced energy and market-management systems to couple the dispatch of storage plants with renewable generation, to make it possible for pumped hydro to help balance market supply and demand.
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