The Recorder - My Turn: Time to retire the Northfield Mountain Pumped Hydro Storage Station
My Turn: Time to retire the Northfield Mountain Pumped Hydro Storage Station FILE PHOTOConnecticut River Published: 4/29/2021 1:17:13 PM After reading Alicia Barton’s (CEO of FirstLight Power Resources) My Turn column (April 23) promoting the Northfield Mountain Pumped Hydro Storage (NMPHS) Station as “an asset in fight against climate change” and “… the largest clean power producer in New England ...” I felt compelled to write. NMPHS is not now nor has it ever been a source of clean, renewable hydropower. It is a hydropower storage facility that buys off-peak, lower-priced energ...