The Helms Pumped Storage Plant is located 50 mi (80 km) east of Fresno California in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range’s Sierra National Forest. It is a power station that uses Helms Creek and the pumped-storage hydroelectric method to generate electricity. After being planned in the early 1970s construction on the plant began in June 1977 and commercial operations began on 30 June 1984. It has an installed capacity of 1212 MW and is owned by Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
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