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To: combjelly who wrote (224718)	2/2/2022 1:25:59 PM
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"it doesn't address this winter" This winter is already half over. Time to start thinking about next winter. RWE has commissioned an energy storage system in Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, which runs on used lithium-ion batteries from Audi electric cars. With this project, the energy company wants to gain knowledge in order to implement even larger storage systems in the future. With the help of 60 battery systems, the new type of storage facility will be able to temporarily store around 4.5 megawatt-hours of electricity on the site of the RWE pumped storage power plant at Lake Hengstey. According to the RWE announcement, the electric car batteries come from development vehicles for the e-tron quattro. Audi itself also employs such used batteries in the charging hub in Nuremberg. electrive.com == Subsidies should begin at home. Germany’s $1bn scheme to subsidise green hydrogen projects in non-EU nations gets green light European Commission approves Berlin's H2Global initiative, which offers a route to market for large-scale renewable hydrogen facilities around the world rechargenews.com == "buying power from France. Which gets 70% of their electricity from nuclear power." When the going gets hot, France has to buy from Germany. Nuclear Power Feeling the Heat - Climate Foresight climateforesight.eu Aug 7, 2019 — This time high temperatures have caused French nuclear power stations to decrease energy outputs due to unsafe levels of heat.