Our Backyard: rPLus Hydro’s Guinea Pig
rPLus Hydro (a Salt Lake City, Utah based development firm) is proposing the Seminoe Pumped Storage Project (SPSP). SPSP aims to build large-scale energy storage. rPlus plans to exploit the existing Seminoe Reservoir and North Platte River as the lower reservoir. RPlus plans construction of a new upper reservoir on the ridge top. Water will be pumped uphill from Seminoe to the new reservoir, then released downhill through turbines back into Seminoe. This is called an “open-loop” system. The...