Solar PV and battery systems are highly competitive on an LCOE basis at utility-scale (21–165 €/MWh el) with overall market costs of electricity depending on local costs, and at residential scale (40–204 €/MWh el) depending on consumer costs of electricity including taxes, transmission costs, and distribution costs.
With the falling costs of solar PV and wind power technologies, the focus is increasingly moving to the next stage of the energy transition and an energy systems approach, where energy storage can help integrate higher shares of solar and wind power.
To provide baseload, intermediate, bipeaker, and peaker electricity at $0.10/kWh with an optimal wind-solar mix, energy storage capacity costs must reach approximately $30–70/kWh, $30–90/kWh, $10–30/kWh, and $10–30/kWh, respectively.
As storage energy capacity costs increase, the solar power plant size increases (B), optimal storage duration decreases (C), and storage power capacity relative to output power increases (D). Solar cost of ownership is estimated as $1,000/kW for all three cases, and the EAF is 100%.
A study by the Royal Society on energy storage estimated the system cost of electricity in 2050 using only wind and solar power and ‘green’ hydrogen to reliably meet demand across a wide variety of conditions to be in the range of £56–£100/MWh.
The costs of energy from optimized systems are summarized in Figure 3 for two different storage technology cost structures, with power and energy capacity costs of $1,000/kW and $20/kWh (Tech I) and $700/kW and $150/kWh (Tech II).
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