Northeast Pennsylvania Environmental and Energy Infrastructure
Clean the Water. Store the Power. Strengthen Northeast Pennsylvania.
Renewable Energy Aggregators is advancing the proposed 184 MW, 1,840 MWh Old Forge Pumped Storage Project, designed to provide approximately 10 hours of long-duration energy storage while creating a durable platform for recovery and treatment of water associated with the Old Forge Borehole.
Proposed generating capacity
Proposed long-duration stored energy
10 hours at 184 MW
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission project number
Why Old Forge Matters
Why Old Forge Matters
Power when the grid needs it. Flexibility for the transmission system. A productive future for a mining-impacted community.
Old Forge brings together a proposed long-duration pumped-storage project and a parallel Borehole water-recovery program. REA is developing controllable power and voltage support for defined system needs while advancing cleaner water, productive land use, and local economic opportunity.
Sustained Power When It Is Needed
A reliability need can last well beyond a brief peak. Old Forge's 1,840 MWh generation-energy basis provides 184 MW for ten hours, with longer duration at lower output. That flexibility gives planners a resource to evaluate for sustained support.
Learn About Output and Duration →Flexible Support for the Grid
Transmission loading and voltage change with system conditions. Old Forge combines adjustable generation with reactive-power injection and absorption. Independent screening identifies location-dependent opportunities to relieve selected circuits and manage voltage, providing a basis for focused utility evaluation.
Explore Grid Integration →Disciplined Infrastructure Investment
Planners need the right combination of equipment and operating flexibility. Old Forge offers an opportunity to defer, resize, or complement a specific transmission investment while meeting the same reliability duty.
Understand the Value Test →Water Recovery and Community Opportunity
Legacy mine drainage calls for sustained treatment and accountable operation. REA's parallel water-recovery program targets pollutant removal and measurable river-restoration outcomes, alongside opportunities for productive reuse of mining-impacted land, construction work, operating roles, and local suppliers.
Explore the Water-Recovery Program →A Project with Two Connected Public Purposes
A Project with Two Connected Public Purposes
Old Forge combines a proposed closed-loop pumped-storage facility with a source-controlled program for the Old Forge Borehole. The energy facility is intended to store electricity when the regional system has available supply and return electricity when the system needs capacity, flexibility, and reliability. The water program is being advanced through REA's Old Forge Borehole Water-Recovery Program.
Old Forge is a pumped-storage and water-recovery project. Any separately sponsored customer — including a large load or industrial facility — must independently address its own siting, power and water requirements, infrastructure, approvals, and community commitments.
A Long-Term Water-Recovery Program
A Long-Term Water-Recovery Program
The Old Forge Borehole has discharged mine-impacted water into the Lackawanna River for more than six decades. REA is advancing a water-recovery program that brings together treatment engineering, permitting, financing, monitoring, and long-term operating responsibility. The proposed pumped-storage project is intended to help support the continuing cost of this work.
Long-Duration Storage for a Changing Grid
Long-Duration Storage for a Changing Grid
Pumped storage can absorb electricity during charging periods and provide dispatchable generation during times of system need. The Old Forge Pumped Storage project uses two ternary units to provide operating flexibility and an approximately ten-hour storage duration that is materially different from short-duration battery storage. Potential services are being advanced through FERC licensing, PJM and PPL interconnection and planning processes, equipment design, operational studies, and commercial agreements.
Grid and Market Opportunities
Grid and Market Opportunities
REA is evaluating utility, grid, industrial, public-infrastructure, and other qualified customer arrangements that can support long-term energy-storage operations and Borehole water recovery.
A Documented Development Record
A Documented Development Record
The project has a multi-year record of engineering, geotechnical investigation, environmental field work, agency consultation, equipment evaluation, mapping, scheduling, permitting analysis, public engagement, and site review. The Engineering & Studies register and Project History timeline identify what work was performed, when it occurred, who performed it, and how it relates to the current 184 MW, 1,840 MWh project.
Public Participation
Committed to Record-Based Answers
REA is committed to answering questions from local governments, landowners, watershed organizations, agencies, and the public using verified project records. We attend public meetings when needed and provide answers tied to the project's documented technical and regulatory record.
Ask a Question or Discuss the Old Forge Project
Contact REA about the project, water recovery, public documents, community questions, or a professional opportunity. We will direct your inquiry to the appropriate project contact.