Pumped Storage Power Stations - Overview of New Projects in Austria

摘要

New framework conditions, due to the liberalisation of the electricity market and the development of renewable energy, especially wind energy with its stochastic production, led to a renaissance of pump storage technology in central Europe. Austria is lucky, first of all in providing natural water resources as well as in topography highly suitable for hydro power plants. Pump storage power plants represent even today an essential asset of the Austrian energy production. A boom for the planning and the construction of new power plants can be also observed. Currently there are pump storage power plants with a total capacity of approximately 1.100 MW under construction as well as others of approximately 1.200 MW in the stage of concrete planning.