Helms Pumped Storage Plant
The Helms Pumped Storage Plant is located 50 miles east of Fresno, California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range's Sierra National Forest. It is a power station that uses Helms Creek canyon on the North Fork of the Kings River for off-river water storage and the pumped-storage hydroelectric method to generate electricity.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Helms Pumped Storage Plant
- Type: Power station
- Description: dam in Fresno County
- Categories: pumped-storage power station and industry
- Location: Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.04001° or 37° 2′ 24″ northLongitude
-118.96432° or 118° 57′ 52″ westInception
June 1984Operator
Pacific Gas and Electric CompanyOpen location code
859322RP+27OpenStreetMap ID
way 863180395Wikidata ID
Q14682193
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Helms Pumped Storage Plant” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “赫爾姆斯抽水蓄能發電廠”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Helms vannkraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Helms vannkraftverk”
- Ukrainian: “ГЕС-ГАЕС Гелмс”
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