He would not clearly identify the land involved nor whether it was secured yet by his company. Hydro Green Energy President and Chief Executive Officer Wayne Krouse said the project would not be on state park property. This device is unable to display framed content. Though fresh water sources are more commonly used, the idea it to help stabilize the grid by using available energy to pump water to a higher, vertical elevation so it can then be run back down through electricity-generating turbines when solar, wind and other power is less abundantly available. Used on a smaller scale for more than a century, pumped storage is increasingly a part of the discussion around renewable energy and California’s zero-carbon goals. It is one of three California proposals for which the company is seeking preliminary permits from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission amid increasing state and national demand for renewable power. The Fort Ross Pumped Storage Project is proposed by Birmingham, Alabama-based Hydro Green Energy. “There is no chance a project of this size, with this scope, will ever get approval in such an environmentally sensitive region like the Sonoma Coast.” “Bottom line: This project is dead on arrival,” California Senate Majority Leader Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg, said Tuesday.
But some elected officials already are bracing for a fight, given the environmental vulnerability and scenic beauty of the remote area - part of a coastline advocates have fiercely defended for decades. Public officials and conservationists are scrambling to understand the ramifications of a proposed power storage facility on the Sonoma Coast through which seawater sucked in and shunted uphill in large pipes would be used to generate electricity during peak demand.ĭetails of the proposed project near Fort Ross remain sketchy.
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