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Pumped hydro storage: Can mountain lakes be our batteries?

The West has the vertical drops to generate clean power when renewables aren’t producing.

(Rick Bowmer | AP) Jet skis move through Red Canyon on Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, in Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, in the northeastern corner of Utah. One proposal for a pumped hydrostorage project would draw water from Flaming Gorge and pump it to a new reservoir in the mountains above.

(Rick Bowmer | AP) Jet skis move through Red Canyon on Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, in Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, in the northeastern corner of Utah. One proposal for a pumped hydrostorage project would draw water from Flaming Gorge and pump it to a new reservoir in the mountains above.

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