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How abandoned mines could expand pumped storage hydropower

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11 August 2026

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technology

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Clean Energy

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Europe

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Fusion42 · 23 August 2026 · Fusion42 review

Mine Storage is developing pumped storage hydropower systems using abandoned underground mines, providing a new method to overcome geographical and environmental limits of traditional pumped storage and enabling large-scale renewable energy storage.

This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Clean Energy.

◆ The Wire takeaway

You can now tap into a ready-built energy storage site by converting abandoned mines into hydropower facilities. That opens renewable storage to new locations and slashes the wait on site permissions and construction.

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Clean Energypumped-storagerenewable-energyenergy-storageinfrastructuremining-repurposing