Yards Creek Generating Station is a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant in Blairstown and Hardwick Township in Warren County, New Jersey, United States.
The facility is owned by REV Renewables, which purchased it from Public Service Enterprise Group and FirstEnergy in 2020 and 2021.
Yards Creek consists of two reservoirs created by earth-fill embankment dams.
[3] Water is conveyed between the plant and the Upper Reservoir via an 18-foot (5.5 m) diameter, 1,800-foot (550 m) long exposed steel pipe.
At full station load, approximately 4 million gpm of water is released (9000 cfs) 5,800 MGD, Velocity: 35 ft/sec, or 24 miles per hour (39 km/h).