This is a type of energy storage called " Pumped storage hydro" .

这是一种叫做“抽水蓄能水电”的能源储存方式。

Pumped storage hydro works really well but it's difficult to build more.

抽水蓄能水电站运行得很好，但很难建造更多。

Quidnet is taking the largest form of energy storage today, which is called pumped hydro storage.

Quidnet 正在采用当今最大的能量存储形式，这就是所谓的抽水蓄能。

It's one of 40 pumped storage facilities around the United States that is used for large-scale energy storage.

这是美国40个抽水蓄能设施之一，其用于大规模储能。

A 2016 Energy Department report said the U.S. network could have 36 gigawatts of new pumped storage capacity.

美国能源部2016年的一份报告称，美国电网可能有3600万千瓦的新抽水蓄能能力。

" This is the site for the first pump storage hydroelectric station in southern Ireland."

“这是爱尔兰南部第一个抽水蓄能水电站的选址。”

Pumped storage is when water is sent from a lower reservoir to an upper one, then released downhill through large machines known as turbines.

抽水蓄能是将水从较低的水库输送到较高的水库，然后通过称为涡轮机的大型机器向山下释放。

Creating a pump storage component to the existing power plant, further reducing carbon emissions in the region.

从而给现有的发电厂创建一个泵存储组件，进一步减少该地区的碳排放。

Texas-based Quidnet Energy, for example, has developed a pumped storage system that forces water underground, holds it amid rock layers and releases it to power turbines.

例如，总部位于德克萨斯州的Quidnet Energy开发了一种抽水蓄能系统，将水注入地下，在岩层中储存，然后释放出来驱动涡轮机。

With Quidnet's subsurface, geo-mechanical pump storage we take that cost and bring it down about an order of magnitude.

借助 Quidnet 的地下机械泵存储，我们将成本降低了大约一个数量级。

For now, batteries are the leading competitor to pumped storage plants, which can generate power for eight to 16 hours.

目前，电池是抽水蓄能电站的主要竞争对手，抽水蓄能电站可以发电8到16个小时。

So the ideal way to store renewable energy would be something that's cheaper and smaller than a pumped storage hydro plant… but works in roughly the same way.

因此，储存可再生能源的理想方式是比抽水蓄能水电站更便宜、更小的东西，但工作原理大致相同。

Pumped hydro storage is more than a century year old.

抽水蓄能已有一个多世纪的历史。

" We don't think pumped storage is the be-all, end-all but it's a vital part of our storage future, " said Cameron Schilling, vice president of markets for the hydropower association.

“我们不认为抽水蓄能是最重要的，但它是我们未来蓄能的重要组成部分，”水电协会市场副主席卡梅伦·席林说。

Some of the obstacles facing large scale build out of new pumped storage projects; one is cost.

大规模新建抽水蓄能项目面临的一些障碍；一是成本。

So pump storage is the oldest form of energy storage.

所以抽水蓄能是最古老的储能形式。

The facility consists of an earthen embankment which forms  the dam itself, a hydropower generation plant that can be reversed to create pumped storage, a service spillway with 8 radial floodgates, and an emergency overflow spillway.

该设施包括形成大坝本身的土堤、可反转以形成抽水蓄能的水力发电厂、带有 8 个径向闸门的服务溢洪道以及紧急溢流溢洪道。