The price of batteries in energy storage cabinets is outrageous

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What is the business case for battery energy storage?

The business case for battery energy storage varies by application and use case. For ''prosumers'' (producers–consumers), the payback period of a home energy storage system can be calculated based on the spread between the cost of producing and storing rooftop solar power and the cost of purchasing electricity from the local utility.

Does battery storage cost reduce over time?

The projections are developed from an analysis of recent publications that include utility-scale storage costs. The suite of publications demonstrates wide variation in projected cost reductions for battery storage over time.

Are battery storage costs based on long-term planning models?

Battery storage costs have evolved rapidly over the past several years, necessitating an update to storage cost projections used in long-term planning models and other activities. This work documents the development of these projections, which are based on recent publications of storage costs.

Why are battery system costs expressed in $/kWh?

By expressing battery system costs in $/kWh, we are deviating from other power generation technologies such as combustion turbines or solar photovoltaic plants where capital costs are usually expressed as $/kW. We use the units of $/kWh because that is the most common way that battery system costs have been expressed in published material to date.

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