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by dontwearitout 946 days ago
I think the point being made is that without grid scale storage, wind and solar are not full solutions and not comparable to nuclear energy. Grid scale storage capacity will come, but it's not here yet.
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But we (well, some of us) have that. Norway has 87TWh of pumped hydro storage that discharges at a rate of 32GW - it would take 3,5 months to empty it completely.
Seems to be happening right now, at least a 150 MW storage grid is up in South Australia:

https://hornsdalepowerreserve.com.au/