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This Idea Holds Water: Martinsdale in Central Montana Is About To Make A Splash In Renewable Energy
The town of Martinsdale in central Montana is a sleepy enclave of unpaved streets lined with a handful of homes and businesses. Once a stop on a busy Chicago-to-Seattle railroad, the place fell quiet when the line went out of business decades ago. But don’t count it out yet. Over the next four years, Montana’s Absaroka Energy is set to turn Martinsdale into a showpiece for renewable energy management in America.
That’s because Absaroka is building a large pumped storage hydro power plant on a nearby butte. It will feed 400 megawatts to a grid linked to cities as far away as Seattle and Portland, Oregon.
by Mark Egan & Tomas Kellner
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Montana Tech partners with Absaroka Energy on DOE hydro project
Absaroka Energy LLC has partnered with Montana Tech’s Department of Electrical Engineering to participate in a recently announced U.S. Department of Energy pumped storage hydro study, according to a news release from Absaroka Energy.
This award is one of six that was selected by DOE through the HydroNEXT initiative. Absaroka’s 400-megawatt Gordon Butte Pumped Storage Project will be used as a reference project in the study.
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Absaroka Energy issued license for $1B Montana power storage project http://www.matr.net/article-74836.html
Montana Power Storage Project From Absaroka Energy Gets Positive Review from Feds http://www.matr.net/article-74269.html
Absaroka Energy’s Gordon Butte project near Martinsdale could help shape Montana’s energy future http://www.matr.net/article-70803.html
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