Posted on Sep 22, 2021
Private entity sought to develop San Diego pumped-storage energy facility
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Somebody gonna land a big job with a lot of headaches for a long time lol....
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I just saw a YT video on these projects in California. Most of them seemed to go back in to the university/foundation/study phase. No real reason given. As a former engineer, my guess is these projects were not ready for a commercial company to come in and take over. So, they left them in the public sector. It is a shame because some of them looked like promising projects.
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There may be some that are promising, the ones that I had a chance to review their technical proposals seemed complete even though I didn’t agree with the concept, they could have moved forward from a technical standpoint. The only thing I could think of that would stop them is money. There’s a lot of equipment to maintain with minor payroll costs. I guess there isn’t enough price difference between high and low energy rates to make a go of it. I never saw the cost analysis, only the overall concepts, how they affected the specific sites, and if they would work as described. I also reviewed cogen plants burning waste coal, and I reviewed the cost data for them enough to say that the higher energy costs go, the more feasible some of these renewable sources look.
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