Experience with the business operation of the Guangzhou Pumped Storage Plant

摘要

Proven experiences have developed as to the operational roles, benefits and economic assessment of pumped storage projects, particularly in developed nations. The pumped hydro has experienced a hectic development world wide because of its technical and economic advantages. According to rough statistics, the world's total installed capacity of the sort is well over 100 GW, of which Minghu plus Mingtan in China's Taiwan comprises 2,600 MW. Other Chinese provinces, however, in their battle against the lingering serious power shortage, must direct their major effort to launch productive power projects like coal-fired plants, and increase their own generating capacity, with little effort to spare for the supply quality and the demand-side requirement Nuclear power has just made its debut in China and the Chinese pumped hydro schemes are beginning to prosper in recent years.