Switzerland's new energy asset: hydro plant with capacity to charge 400,000 car batteries

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Switzerland is adding a much needed cog in the wheel to its energy supply with an underground hydropower plant that says it has capacity to store enough electricity to charge 400,000 car batteries simultaneously.

The Vieux Emosson and Emosson dams are pictured above of the newly operational Nant de Drance pumped storage electricity power plant in Finhaut, Switzerland, August 4, 2022.

Denis BalibousePart of the transformers chamber is seen in the newly operational Nant de Drance pumped storage electricity power plant, in Finhaut, Switzerland, August 4, 2022. Denis BalibouseAlain Sauthier, Director of Nant de Drance talks to a journalist above the main inlet valve of the penstock in the newly operational Nant de Drance pumped storage electricity power plant in Finhaut, Switzerland, August 4, 2022.

 

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Switzerland does not have enough power generation to keep the lights, heaters and industries on after recklessly deciding to let nuclear (40% of supply) go obsolete. Really dumb, misleading headline, suggesting that this is all extra energy available for BEVs.

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