Benefits for Maine
The following is a list of capabilities and benefits of PSH:
Grid Reliability
- Provides electricity when needed, regardless of time of day or weather.
- Enhances grid reliability and stability.
Rate Payer & Community
- Features low-cost energy storage technology due to a long-proven service life.
- Boosts community tax revenue and job creation.
Environment
- Recycles water as a storage medium between reservoirs.
- Utilizes existing transmission infrastructure to enhance future transmission capabilities by improving grid efficiency.
- Provides opportunity for increased clean energy integration.
- Can provide an opportunity to establish environmental and renewable energy education opportunities as well as recreation, and resource protection/restoration areas.