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Okinawa Yanbaru Seawater Pumped Storage Power Station

Japan

The 3119th largest power station in the world

30 MW · Capacity

The Okinawa Yanbaru Seawater Pumped Storage Power Station (Okinawa Yanbaru Kaisui Yōsui Hatsudensho) was an experimental hydroelectric power station located in Kunigami, Okinawa, Japan and operated by the Electric Power Development Company. It was the world’s first pumped-storage facility to use seawater for storing energy. Its maximum output was 30 MW. Construction of the plant started in 1987 and was completed in 1999 at a cost of ¥3.2 billion. It was dismantled in 2016.

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