S8 - Pumped hydroelectric energy storage (PHES)

Energy storage is a key issue to integrate more and more renewable energy assets into the global electricity production market. Pumped hydroelectric energy storage will remain for many years the most effective solution to store large amounts of energy without significant losses and a high global efficiency. Today, facing deep changes in the electricity production scene, new challenges are opened to engineers to develop more flexible PHES solutions or to create new plants. One could for instance think to projects of underground PHES such as currently studied in Germany, USA or Belgium.

In this thematic session, recent advances in the development of new solutions for PHES will be presented and discussed from both mechanical and civil engineering points of view.

Conveners: Dr Sébastien Erpicum (University of Liege) and Prof. Patrick Hendrick (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

For more information: s.erpicum@ulg.ac.be or patrick.hendrick@ulb.ac.be