Power and Grids
11 places America stores its spare electricity, from a 3,003-megawatt Virginia mountain to a 750-megawatt wall of batteries on Monterey Bay
Electricity is hard to keep, so utilities and agencies have built places that hold it as lifted water or as chemical charge until demand calls for it. The sites below include mountain reservoirs, river dams and a battery complex on the California coast. Here are eleven of them, each with the capacity figure or design […]
By
Kade Winslow
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