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Bath County Pumped Storage Station

Pumped storage hydroelectric power plant in Bath County, Virginia, United States

Placepumped-storage power station hydroelectric power stationQ119214

Country: United States
Located in: Bath County
Founded: 1977
Located in/on physical feature: Back Creek

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The Bath County Pumped Storage Station is a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant with a maximum generation capacity of 3,003 MW, an average of 2,772 MW, and a total storage capacity of 24,000 MWh. The station is located in the northern corner of Bath County, Virginia, on the southeast side of the Eastern Continental Divide, which forms this section of the border between Virginia and West Virginia. The station consists of two reservoirs separated by about 1,260 feet (380 m) in elevation. It was the largest pumped-storage power station in the world until 2021, when it was surpassed by the Fengning Pumped Storage Power Station.

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Opened: December 1985
Nominal power output: 2,862 MW
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1.Stated in Form EIA-860
2.Stated in Form EIA-860MRetrieved 2023-02-20
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Operator: Dominion Energy
Owned by: Dominion Energy proportion: 0.6
FirstEnergy proportion: 0.4
Energy storage capacity: 24,000 megawatt-hour
Product or material produced: electricity(2017) quantity: -935 GWh
Service entry: 1985

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38.2089, -79.8000OpenStreetMap ↗

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