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How Does Northfield Mountain Pump Hydro to Store Electricity?
Northfield Mountain uses pumped hydro to store electricity by transforming it into potential energy. This reservoir is basically like a five billion gallon battery. The pumps that originally pumped it up to the reservoir in the first place, those pumps become generators and create electricity just like a dam would at a hydroelectric station.
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