| Summary: | "The role of renewable sources of energy in combating climate change cannot be over-emphasized. Profound measures taken especially by the European Union (EU) in reducing global rising temperatures has seen massive development of renewable sources of energy such as solar and wind. This strategic plan taken by the EU has led to the an increase in national efforts to promote further development of renewable energy systems as well as increased exchange of power between member states due to the challenge of storing energy generated from these sources. If much energy is going to be produced from these sources, this challenge calls for an increasing need for energy storage to balance power by compensating for the difference between production and consumption. The growing synergy among EU member states has made it possible for Norway to be selected as the “Green Battery” of Europe by developing Pumped Storage Hydropower (PSH) plants as a means of storage technology, the most feasible among all the storage technologies available today. This is achieved by using “surplus” power to pump water to an upper reservoir which can be release back into a lower reservoir to generate power when there is demand. With the topography of Norway favoring the development of PSH schemes, much research has been carried out especially in Southern Norway and it is estimated that 20 000 MW of power is possible to be generated. This report carries a review specifically on possible sites for the development of PSH in Northern Norway. Results gathered from the screening process in the region shows that a total of 84 pairs of reservoirs can be used, summing up to 19 different potential PSH projects in Northern Norway. The power generation from these PSH projects is estimated to be 25 000 MW. The total cost from an estimated cost analysis reaches to about 526 Million Kroner. The study further carries out a detailed analysis on the proposed Isvatn-Langvatnet PSH project by running the PSH Model on the chosen reservoir pairs with wind data from the ...
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