Webinar: Back to Basics – Pumped Storage Hydropower from design to performance

Join the ESMAP webinar to explore webinar exploring the design and performance of pumped storage hydropower (PSH). In collaboration with the International Hydropower Association, we will bring together expert speakers to discuss the role of PSH in modern power systems. The session will provide perspectives on how PSH contributes to system reliability and flexibility, the range of energy services it can provide, and why PSH is increasingly relevant for modern power system planning.

Participants will gain insight into how PSH plants are designed and operated to meet defined performance requirements, the technical and operational choices that shape those outcomes, and how plant capabilities are translated into balancing and other services in real-world operation. Speakers will draw on practical project experience to examine how design and operational decisions translate into power system flexibility and value. Join us to better understand how pumped storage hydropower can be designed and operated to meet evolving power system needs.