Title :
Design Features of the Helms Pumped Storage Project
Author_Institution :
Pacific Gas and Electric Company San Francisco, California
fDate :
3/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The Helms Project has been in operation since 1984 and represents the state of the art in pumped storage technology in terms of operating heads and unit capacity. This paper describes design features, startup experiences, corrective work and project performance to date.
Keywords :
Coils; Cooling; Lamination; Magnetic heads; Reservoirs; Rotors; Stators; Synchronous motors; Temperature; Turbines;
Journal_Title :
Power Engineering Review, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MPER.1989.4310531
