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christina97
7 months ago
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World's largest pumped storage power plant fully o...
It’s 12 units, 300 MW each so 3.6 GW, not 36 GW.
masklinn
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> When fully charged, the upper reservoir can store enough energy to power the plant at full capacity for 10.8 hours
That's actually 38.8GWh so close enough.
applied_heat
7 months ago
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Both the GW and GWh are important and independent characteristics
ggm
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Gwh/Mwh and GW/MW are not the same units. One is a time based unit, scales to duration and the other is peak intensity. You can deliver 1 GW for an hour is 1 Gwh and the same Gwh can deliver 500 MW for 2 hours or 250 MW for 4 hours.
christina97
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Ah yes I misread because it was written separately. Not sure where 36 GWh came from though.
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