Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-18

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00:01:38 1 Size and location
00:02:55 2 History
00:03:04 2.1 Site selection
00:04:17 2.2 Construction
00:06:11 2.3 Upgrades
00:07:15 2.4 2005 upper reservoir failure
00:09:34 2.4.1 Litigation and investigations
00:12:22 2.5 Reconstruction
00:13:47 3 See also



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The Taum Sauk pumped storage plant is in the St. Francois mountain region of the Missouri Ozarks about 90 miles (140 km) south of St. Louis near Lesterville, Missouri, in Reynolds County. It is operated by Ameren Missouri (previously AmerenUE, formerly Union Electric).

The pumped-storage hydroelectric plant was constructed from 1960-1962 and was designed to help meet daytime peak electric power demand.  It began operation in 1963.  Electrical generators are turned by water flowing from a reservoir on top of Proffit Mountain into a lower reservoir on the East Fork of the Black River.  At night, excess electricity on the power grid is used to pump water back to the mountaintop.
The Taum Sauk plant is an open-loop pure pumped operation: unlike some other pumped storage sites, there is no natural primary flow into the upper reservoir available for generation. It is therefore a net consumer of electricity; the laws of thermodynamics dictate that more power is used to pump the water up the mountain than is generated when it comes down.  However, the plant is still economical to operate because the upper reservoir is refilled at night, when the electrical generation system is running at low-cost baseline capacity. This ability to store huge amounts of energy led its operator to call Taum Sauk "the biggest battery that we have".On December 14, 2005, a catastrophic failure in the upper reservoir dam put the plant out of operation until it was rebuilt, recertified, and reopened on April 21, 2010. The new upper reservoir dam, rebuilt from the ground up, is the largest roller-compacted concrete dam in North America.