History
On August 6, 2007 The Nevada Hydro Company announced its agreement with Morgan Stanley Commodities to create a new corporate entity, LEAPS Hydro, LLC, for the purposes of building, owning and operating the $1.1 billion Lake Elsinore Advanced Pump Storage (LEAPS) project and the accompanying transmission lines to provide increased energy reliability to Southern California.
All pump/storage power plants require a large body of water, like Lake Elsinore, and nearby mountains where a relatively large reservoir exists or can be built. In the case of the LEAPS Project, the plan is to build a new reservoir in the mountains west of Lake Elsinore. The reservoir would have a surface area of approximately 100 acres (0.40 km2) and it would be formed in a natural canyon by constructing a 180-foot (55 m) high dam. The lake and reservoir would be interconnected by one or two large pipes 12 to 20 feet (6.1 m) in diameter.
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