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These flooded coal mines are being used to heat hundreds of homes
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Of course, easily. Switzerland has been using pumped water for storage almost a century. Here is one example:
It doesn't use wind power exclusively for pumping but any surplus energy. In the past this usually had been French nuclear energy, in the future it will be mostly solar and some wind.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimselsee