Will Pumped-Storage Projects Benefit from White House Infrastructure Plan?

SUGAR LAND--February 5, 2018--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The Trump administration's pledge to rebuild the nation's infrastructure, which may include streamlining federal reviews of Power and other proposed infrastructure projects, is due to be unveiled any day. But some aspects of the plan started leaking to the media in advance of the president's State of the Union address last month. Depending on the plan's details, including whether federal laws like the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) or the Endangered Species Act (ESA) are modified, the infrastructure proposal could give a badly needed boost to pumped-storage projects, some of which have been trying to obtain permits for 10 years or more. Within this article: Details of the 500-megawatt (MW) grassroot San Vicente project.