Work continues to progress toward establishing an energy storage project on former aluminum plant property south of Goldendale along the Columbia River in Klickitat County using a closed hydro system that moves water between two reservoirs to create energy.  Erik Steimle of Rye Development, which is developing the project for Copehagen Investment Partners of Denmark, says they are currently working through Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and Washington State Department of Ecology processes that began in 2018.  Steimle says those agencies are working through their own environmental reviews, which should wrap up sometime in 2022, and could allow construction to begin in the 2023-24 timeline.  Steimle says the $2 billion project is estimated to create 3,000 construction jobs while it is being built, and 60 permanent jobs.