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New England’S Largest Battery

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Northfield Mountain's pumped storage hydroelectric station.
. . . The generators are powered by this manmade mountaintop lake.

“This facility here is capable of just under
. . . 1,200 megawatts, so we’re good for well over a million homes.”

Pumping water up and down the mountain is a net energy loss.
. . . ore electricity is used then generated.
. . . But because off-peak electricity costs less than
. . . the price Northfield gets for what it generates when demand is high,
. . . the system is a moneymaker.

12-7-2016 Source:  New England’s Largest Battery


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