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by tupshin 731 days ago
Similar time frame. Slightly smaller capacity, Northfield Mountain was brought online to store power from the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Interestingly the pumped hydro facility is still functioning as a grid battery, even after the nuclear plant was decommissioned for no longer being cost effective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northfield_Mountain_(hydroelec...