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GCSE Design and Technology · key term
An energy-storage system that uses electricity to pump water to a higher reservoir, then releases it downhill through turbines to generate electricity when needed.
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Paper 1
Revise: Energy storage systemsA kinetic pumped storage system has two reservoirs at different heights, connected by pipes and a power station containing pumping equipment, turbines and generators. It works in two stages.
Although the specification calls it kinetic pumped storage, the raised water stores gravitational potential energy. It has kinetic energy when it flows.
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