Earlier quoted context omitted.
ITER will never produce electric energy but they plan to achieve Q=5, ie, output 5 times more energy than put in. The more important work on ITER is work around enabling actual power stations using Q=5 and developing the tech to maintain operating fusion reactors (remote robots, etc.)
At that point can't you just store the output current in supercapacitors for later use anyway? You can even feed it into the machine itself. Supercapacitors easily have better than 20% efficiency for each cycle.
DEMO, to my knowledge, will then include an actual electric generator to be hooked up to the fusion core.