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# Virtual dams: Harvesting the output of hydropower with dispatchability constraints
## Download the "Virtual Dams" white paper
Battery-based energy storage can serve as a "virtual dam," helping owners of run-of-river hydropower and agricultural dams create new value from these resources.
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### In our new white paper, you'll learn:
- How virtual dams, a new application for battery-based energy storage, can help maximize generation capabilities of these hydro assets;
- The differences between battery-based and pumped hydro forms of energy storage;
- The ways virtual dams can offer new revenue streams via the sale of energy and/or capacity as well as grid services to the electricity networks to which these assets are connected.
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