The Klickitat PUD Board of Commissioners will host a set of meetings Tuesday to discuss a project that would create a closed loop system using three reservoirs and turbine generators to produce electricity at times when it is needed.  The John Day Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Project would be located at the John Day Dam, with a lower reservoir on the former Goldendale Aluminum smelter site.  Brian Skeahan is coordinating the project for Klickitat PUD, and he says the concept is being studied with an eye toward the process of continued integration of renewable resources into the Western energy grid in the next decade.  He says renewables involve variable generation that makes it difficult to match load, and pumped storage is probably the only feasible commercially available method to deal with that at this time.  Who would pay for and own the project that could cost two billion dollars is an open question, with Skeahan noting it would not be solely Klickitat PUD.  Tuesday’s meetings include a site visit in the morning, followed by sessions in the Klickitat PUD offices in Goldendale at 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.  Skeahan says the focus will be on a finalizing studies that need to be conducted this year to submit as part of a permit application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.