Total benefits of reservoir energy storage
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Why is storage in hydropower reservoirs important?
Storage in hydropower reservoirs is important to the management of both water resources and the electric grid, especially with variable water availability and evolving grid needs.
Do hydropower reservoirs need water and energy storage?
Long-term planning and operation of hydropower reservoirs require an understanding of both water and energy storage. As energy storage needs of the evolving grid increase, we must account for the water and energy storage potential of these reservoirs.
How can we calculate energy storage capacity at hydropower reservoirs?
By combining existing inventories of surface water (reservoirs and streamflow) and hydropower infrastructure (dams and power plants), we can calculate nominal energy storage capacity at hydropower reservoirs for the entire US.
Why is energy storage important?
The ability to store energy and support long-term planning for grid reliability, especially with a greater number of intermittent renewables (i.e., solar and wind) coming online, is especially important (e.g., Arbabzadeh et al., 2019 ).
Why are reservoir inflows important?
Finally, reservoir inflows provide context for the storage volumes and sensitivities to hydrologic variability. Larger reservoirs with greater storage volume to inflow ratios are concentrated in the Western US, but the majority of hydropower reservoirs store less than the annual inflow.
How much electricity can a hydropower reservoir store?
IEA estimates for global hydropower reservoir “equivalent electricity storage capabilities” are 1,500 TWh, 176 times the current global pumped-storage capability of 8.5 TWh (IEA, 2021 ).