Truss handed ‘quick and cheap’ energy goldmine to power ‘millions’ by harnessing UK rivers

Mr Radue added that hydropower has some benefits compared to solar and wind: “With the arrival of wind and solar, which are intermittent by nature, the role of pump storage has increased significantly in hydropower.

“Pump storage is fundamentally a closed loop system. You have water at the bottom, water at the top, you pump it up, when soak up that power that you don’t need elsewhere, and you let it run down when you want to release the power.

“Fundamentally, you can easily power the world today, with solar, wind, hydro and pump storage. I think hydropower is super viable for pumped storage.”

“For the traditional installed base, it’s very viable to repower existing facilities. We have many existing facilities, and often they are quite old, and often it’s very easy to repower them.”

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