With the liberalisation of the electricity market and the rapid expansion of wind power, increasing use is being made of pumped storage power plants (PSPP) to provide balancing power. The consequential increase in the intrinsic value of pumped storage power plants ...

The most distinctive effects of the liberalisation of the electricity supply market in Europe are the increased demands for peak power supply, power and frequency control and pumped storage. The hydro-electric power plant Kops II in western Austria ...

Construction is now at an advanced stage at Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)’s GBP 140-plus million Glendoe hydro-electric project. This is the first large conventional hydro-electric project in the United Kingdom for fifty years ...

Due to its topography, Austria is a classic hydropower country. Around 60 per cent of the national power generation originates from this environmentally friendly form of energy, with the remaining 37 per cent generated in caloric power plants ...

In 1946, the annual hydroelectric power production in Norway was 11 TWh. The development of new hydropower increased the production to 119.5 TWh in 1995. Today, hydroelectric power production is approximately 123 TWh ...

The energy situation in Iceland is unique in the sense that well over 70 per cent of all energy used is sustainable and pollution free energy, from hydro and geothermal sources. Fossil fuels are only used for transportation and the fishing fleet ...

South West England is emerging as a major force in the renewable energy industry, with plans now approved for the world’s first large scale wave farm off the coast of Cornwall ...