# 2025-20926: Company Wants to Build Giant Water Battery on Ridge

2025-20926, Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage, LLC; Notice of Scoping Period Requesting Comments on Environmental Issues for the Proposed Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage Project, is a Federal Register notice from Energy Department, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission published 2025-11-25, effective Scoping comments must be received in Washington, DC on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on December 23, 2025. (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20926
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-20926
- Title: Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage, LLC; Notice of Scoping Period Requesting Comments on Environmental Issues for the Proposed Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage Project
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Energy Department; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Citation: 90 FR 53317
- Published: 2025-11-25
- Effective: Scoping comments must be received in Washington, DC on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on December 23, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Company Wants to Build Giant Water Battery on Ridge

## Summary

Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage, LLC wants to build a new hydroelectric project near Blackmont, Kentucky, and the government is asking the public for their thoughts on how it might affect the environment. People living nearby and local nature could see changes, and the public has until December 23, 2025, to share their ideas. This feedback will help decide if the project gets the green light and how it moves forward.

## Effects PRIA read

- Public scoping comment deadline: benefit, low. You can tell FERC what to study about the proposed Lewis Ridge Pumped Storage Project by submitting written comments. Comments must be received in Washington, DC by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on December 23, 2025; you can file electronically using FERC's eFiling or eComment systems.
- Project water use and river flow amounts: cost, medium. The project would require about 2,808 acre-feet of water for initial fill and about 149 acre-feet annually for maintenance. It would make available all Tom Fork River flows above 2.8 cubic feet per second (cfs) for maintenance and use about 10% of the mean monthly flow in the Cumberland River for i…
- Land, river inundation, and on-site construction: cost, medium. The proposed project boundary would enclose about 148 acres of privately owned land plus about 16 additional parcels; the lower reservoir would inundate part of the 1.8-mile-long Tom Fork River. Construction would add about 7.1 miles of permanent roads, 4 miles of temporary roads, a 2.5-mile 161-ki…

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## Sources
- [2025-20926 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/25/2025-20926/lewis-ridge-pumped-storage-llc-notice-of-scoping-period-requesting-comments-on-environmental-issues)
- [2025-20926 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-25/pdf/2025-20926.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-20926 (as of 2026-06-08).