The largest battery was build in Belgium in the years 1980. It was meant to be a backup of nuclear power plants when overproducing at night! These nuclear power plants weren’t made to modulate.
The nominal power of the pumped power plant is 1000MW and this for several hours. It has an equivalent of 500000 Tesla wall batteries, and uses water as storage medium! The nominal power can be achieved within 60 seconds. The pumping can be automatically switched to turbine, what was needed during the power grid incident in 2006.
The energy world should also think of this kind of ecological solutions. This power station can run for 100 years without major overhaul. Where lithium batteries need recycling every then years.
The only need is a level of 200 meters between lower and upper lakes. In Coo, a hilltop was converted into a lake.
When computers saw the light, Coo was build! 40 years later still operating without problems, but now to store wind power and solar power!
I have some pictures of when they completely drained it last year,
what are the main hurdles stopping us from making more of these ?
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The largest battery was build in Belgium in the years 1980. It was meant to be a backup of nuclear power plants when overproducing at night! These nuclear power plants weren’t made to modulate.
The nominal power of the pumped power plant is 1000MW and this for several hours. It has an equivalent of 500000 Tesla wall batteries, and uses water as storage medium! The nominal power can be achieved within 60 seconds. The pumping can be automatically switched to turbine, what was needed during the power grid incident in 2006.
The energy world should also think of this kind of ecological solutions. This power station can run for 100 years without major overhaul. Where lithium batteries need recycling every then years.
The only need is a level of 200 meters between lower and upper lakes. In Coo, a hilltop was converted into a lake.
When computers saw the light, Coo was build! 40 years later still operating without problems, but now to store wind power and solar power!
I have some pictures of when they completely drained it last year,
what are the main hurdles stopping us from making more of these ?