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The two main discharge lines stairstep up the mountain in an 8400-foot-long tunnel. They are 12.5 feet in diameter for the first half and 14 feet in diameter for the last half. They each contain 8.5 million gallons of water at all times. At full capacity, the pumps can fling nearly 2 million gallons per minute up over the Tehachapis.
Power is generated at 18,000 volts then stepped up to 230,000 volts to be distributed to various receiving substations in Los Angeles. Each of the six 250,000 kilowatt units function as pumps as well as generators. Each pump will have a power input of 320,000 horsepower (240,000 kW) when pumping at a rate of 2,300 cubic feet per second (65 m 3 ...
The C.W. Bill Jones Pumping Plant (formerly the Tracy Pumping Plant) [1] located 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Tracy, California, was constructed between 1947 and 1951, and is a key component of the Central Valley Project. [2]
The plant is the second pumping plant for the California Aqueduct and the South Bay Aqueduct. It provides the necessary fluid head (potential energy) for the California Aqueduct to flow for approximately 95 miles (153 km) to where the Coastal Branch splits from the "main line" approximately 10 miles (16 km) south-southeast of Kettleman City.
Station Country Location Power capacity () Storage capacity Ref; Fengning Pumped Storage Power Station China 3,600: 40,000 [1] [2]Bath County Pumped Storage Station United States
The Helms Pumped Storage Plant is located 50 mi (80 km) east of Fresno, California in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range's Sierra National Forest. It is a power station that uses Helms Creek canyon on the North Fork of the Kings River for off-river water storage [1] and the pumped-storage hydroelectric method to generate electricity. After being ...
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Completed in 1963, the eleven pump units can lift up to 10,670 cu ft/s (302 m 3 /s) of water – upgraded in 1986 from its original capacity of 6,400 cu ft/s (180 m 3 /s) across seven units. [32] From here the water flows briefly south along the California Aqueduct to the 4,800 acre⋅ft (0.0059 km 3) Bethany Reservoir.