Hydro Battery Pearl Hill Award Number: DE-EE0008013 CX(s) Applied: A9 Water Power Technologies Office Date: 4/6/2017 Location(s): WA Office(s): Golden Field Office
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance
April 13, 2017
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Hydro Battery Pearl Hill
Award Number: DE-EE0008013
CX(s) Applied: A9
Water Power Technologies Program
Date: 4/6/2017
Location(s): WA
Office(s): Golden Field Office
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide funding to Shell Energy North America, L.P. (SENA) to develop and demonstrate a floating reservoir technology option as a reliable, safe and low-cost way to reconfigure naturally abundant open-loop sites into closed-loop opportunities for pumped storage of hydropower. The proposed project would be divided into two Budget Periods (BP), with a down-select between the two budget periods. This NEPA review is for BP1 only.
BP1 would involve front-end development, preliminary design, permitting and licensing, engineering and feasibility work to be completed at SENA’s office space in Spokane, WA; Pacific Northwest National Lab in Richland, WA; and Huxley College of the Environment in Bellingham, WA. BP1 activities would be limited to intellectual, academic, or analytical activities and would require no physical materials beyond standard office supplies and computer equipment.