Meanwhile in Germany:

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        Electricity? Like, you use excess power to lift water and generate power from letting it descend when you need power. The latter is generated. Or am I not getting something?

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          I know. It never generates more than it consumes so it has negative production overall. Or is this a real-time chart despite saying “past 12 months”?

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            I think the idea is that it only uses excess energy that would otherwise be wasted to fill it, so it kind of generates energy as it’s essentially filled for free.

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              Yes, I know. Still, misleading: they show up negative in these power generation charts most of the time and this is supposed to be a cumulative one.