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Pumped hydro project in Washington State passes key stage of approvals, while another in South Dakota has been abandoned.

The U.S. hydropower industry is warning that burdensome permitting is a significant impediment to development of hydro which is the nation's largest dispatchable renewable source.

Boston-based Rye Development wants to build the largest pumped-storage hydroelectric development in the Pacific Northwest and in the process destroy irreplaceable Tribal Cultural and Religious Resources. Pumped storage is touted as the most efficient way to store solar and wind power and the Goldendale Energy Storage Project touts itself as green energy. But building this

A major new energy storage facility for the Northwest is one step closer to being built, with federal regulators releasing new documents outlining some of the impacts of the Goldendale Energy Storage Project in south-central Washington – including likely damage to sacred Indigenous sites.

Federal regulators released new documents outlining some of the impacts of the Goldendale Energy Storage Project in south-central Washington — including likely damage to sacred Indigenous sites.