Located on private land zoned for renewable energy, the Goldendale Energy Storage Project is crucial for transitioning the West Coast to a 100% renewable energy grid. The $2 billion+ project, located about eight miles southeast of Goldendale, Washington, is a closed-loop pumped storage hydropower facility that will support more than 3,000 family-wage construction jobs and spur economic growth in the region.

Pumped storage is the world's largest, most proven form of energy storage helping safeguard our electrical grid against blackouts, extreme weather events, and other potential crises that can disrupt the economy and our way of life.

The Goldendale project would have the capacity to store 12 hours of energy and generate 1,200 megawatts of clean electricity, or enough electricity to power about 500,000 homes. Located at the site of the former Columbia Gorge Aluminum smelter and within the Tuolumne Wind Farm, the facility will use existing roads and transmission lines to deliver on-demand power to the grid. Project owner Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has committed $10 million to the remediation of contaminated lands at the former aluminum smelter prior to construction.