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Unless this project can help solve the 5-9 pm load peak, I still do not see the benefit.
Of course we could just use the wind and PV energy directly ... and save the ~ 20% pumping/conversion costs.The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the nation’s largest municipal utility, says its proposal would increase the productivity of the dam, which operates at just 20 percent of its potential, to avoid releasing too much water at once and flooding towns downstream.
Unless this project can help solve the 5-9 pm load peak, I still do not see the benefit.