ANU identifies 5,000 possible pumped hydro sites
Each site has seven to 1,000 times larger storage potential than the 0. GWh Tesla battery to be installed in South Australia. Researchers at ANUĀ have identified about 5,000 sites in Queensland, Tasmania, the Canberra district and in and around Alice Springs as potentially suitable for pumped hydro storage. The ANU team has considered the possible benefits of using hydro power energy storage, where water is pumped uphill and stored to generate electricity on demand. Professor Andrew Blakers said the sites had storage potential ranging from 0.9 to more than 100 Gigawatt-hours (GWh). "Each site has seven to 1,000 times larger storage potential than the 0. GWh Tesla battery to be installed in South Australia," said Professor Blakers, the study's lead researcher from the ANU Research School of Engineering.
