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6 Frequently Asked Questions about “What is the scale of the wind and solar storage industry ”
Do storage technologies add value to solar and wind energy?
Some storage technologies today are shown to add value to solar and wind energy, but cost reduction is needed to reach widespread profitability.
How does energy storage affect the selling price of solar energy?
The average selling price without storage is lower for wind than solar, but as the energy storage increases in size (per unit rated power of solar or wind generation), the pricing distribution and mean selling price become increasingly similar across the two energy resources (Supplementary Figs 6–8).
Does storage increase the value of a solar or wind plant?
Storage can increase the revenue generated by a solar or wind plant, but it also increases the capital costs of the plant. Here we optimize both the discharging behaviour, as done above, and the storage system size, to maximize the value of the electricity generation.
Is solar storage more valuable than wind?
Storage is more valuable for wind than solar in two out of the three locations studied (Texas and Massachusetts), but across all locations the benefit from storage is roughly similar across the two energy resources, in terms of the percentage increase in value due to the incorporation of optimally sized storage.
What is the power to energy cost trade-off of storage technologies?
The power to energy cost trade-off of storage technologies is also similar across the two energy resources. This means that the direction of optimal improvement in energy and power costs is similar across the three locations and two energy resources for any given storage technology.
Can storage technologies be compared on a common scale?
Evaluating diverse storage technologies on a common scale has proved a major challenge, however, owing to their widely varying performance along the two dimensions of energy and power costs. Here we devise a method to compare storage technologies, and set cost improvement targets.