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EnergyAustralia ponders world’s largest seawater pumped hydro energy storage plant

February 22, 2017

Major power firm EnergyAustralia is studying the feasibility of building a huge pumped hydroelectric energy storage project in the Spencer Gulf of South Australia.

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