Germany sits on storage capacity more than 247 TWh

opo 2 days ago | parent [-]

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.

	▲	pfdietz a day ago \| parent [-]
		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