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Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by opo on Saturday September 13, 2025 @03:41PM (#45234733)
What is the 247 TWh number referring too?

Germany uses a little over 500 TWh of electricity per year.

Germany has a little more than 20 GWh of grid storage.

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Re:EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy by pfdietz on Sunday September 14, 2025 @02:28PM (#45242116)
It's referring to the possible storage capacity, probably the potential to store hydrogen in underground solution mined salt caverns.

I've heard much higher figures, in the PWh for Europe as a whole.

Storage of energy as heat at 600 C has much larger potential storage capacity; see standardthermal.com

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