China’s Massive Hydro Energy Storage Goals May Be Getting Bigger

(Bloomberg) — China’s biggest dam builder says the country is launching an even-larger-than-expected campaign to build hydro energy storage to complement renewable power.

China will start construction of more than 200 pumped hydro stations with a combined capacity of 270 gigawatts by 2025, Ding Yanzhang, chairman of Power Construction Corp. of China, said Monday in a commentary in the Communist Party-run People’s Daily. The company, also known as PowerChina, is the country’s largest builder of such projects.