Pumped Storage Hydropower: Innovations in Energy Conversion and Storage Integration
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 66
Special Issue Editors
2. School of Energy and Power Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China
3. Centre for Industrial Diagnostic and Fluid Dynamics, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: energy conversion; fluid machinery; pump turbine; multiphase flow
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Interests: renewable energy; cavitation; fluid-structure interaction; vibration and noise
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the increasing proportion of renewable energy generation, power grids are facing growing challenges of volatility and intermittency. Pumped storage hydropower, as a mature and reliable large-scale energy storage technology, plays a crucial role in balancing grid supply and demand, enhancing the integration capacity of renewable energy, and ensuring the safe and stable operation of power systems. To meet the demands of future energy system transformations, the field of pumped storage hydropower urgently requires innovative research in areas such as new pumped storage technologies (e.g., seawater pumped storage and underground pumped storage), intelligent operation and control (e.g., AI and big data-based smart dispatch systems, coordinated control technologies with renewable energy generation systems), equipment and material innovations (e.g., corrosion-resistant and wear-resistant new materials, as well as applications of new energy storage materials), and environmentally friendly and sustainable development (e.g., eco-friendly construction solutions and ecological restoration technologies, as well as integrated development models with eco-tourism and agricultural irrigation). Through continuous technological innovation and cross-disciplinary collaboration, pumped storage hydropower will have the ability to significantly contribute to building a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient modern energy system.
This Special Issue will cover, but is not limited to, the following topics:
- Applications of new methods and technologies in pumped storage;
- Innovative experimental methods and equipment for hydrodynamic studies;
- Cavitation, vortex, and multiphase flow in hydraulic machinery;
- Pumped storage, tidal, and ocean energy.
Dr. Yonggang Lu
Dr. Zhenwei Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy conversion
- pumped storage
- hydro energy technology
- hydrodynamic experiment
- hydrodynamic simulation
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