Kentucky Coal Mine Will Become Giant “Water Battery” Energy Storage Project
Kentucky is on the verge of a renewable energy breakthrough, including a massive new long duration, pumped hydro energy storage project.Whelp, that was fast. No sooner does the Ford Motor Company put Kentucky on the clean tech map for EV battery manufacturing, when along comes the leading hydropower company Rye Development with a proposal to make Kentucky an epicenter of the long duration energy storage trend.
is a closed loop system that would go to Bell County, which is located by the southeast corner of Kentucky. If all goes according to plan, the end result will be almost $1 billion in investor dollars flowing into the county, along with 3 to 5 years worth of “family wage” construction jobs for about 2,000 workers.
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