El Chorro hydroelectric facility, El Chorro, Spain. This is a pump storage facility, where water from the lake seen here is pumped to a high altitude

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El Chorro hydroelectric facility, El Chorro, Spain. This is a pump storage facility, where water from the lake seen here is pumped to a high altitude reservoir at the top of the mountain. Water is then released and flows down through turbines back to the lake, to generate electricity in periods of peak demand.

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