Energy storage prices vary depending on the system type and capacity1. As of Q1 2021, the cost benchmarks include:Residential PV systems: $2.65 per watt DC (WDC) or $3.05/WACCommercial rooftop PV systems: $1.56/WDC or $1.79/WACCommercial ground-mount PV systems: $1.64/WDC or $1.88/WACFixed-tilt
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2022 Grid Energy Storage Technology Cost and As with last year, not all energy storage technologies are being addressed in the report due to the breadth of technologies available
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Energy storage system costs stay above $300/kWh for a turnkey four-hour duration system. In 2022, rising raw material and component prices led to the first increase in energy storage system costs since BNEF
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metrics determine the average price that a unit of energy output would need to be sold at to cover all project costs inclusive of taxes, financing, operations and maintenance, and others.
Energy storage system costs stay above $300/kWh for a turnkey four-hour duration system. In 2022, rising raw material and component prices led to the first increase in energy storage system costs since BNEF started its ESS cost survey in 2017. Costs are expected to remain high in 2023 before dropping in 2024.
The cost categories used in the report extend across all energy storage technologies to allow ease of data comparison. Direct costs correspond to equipment capital and installation, while indirect costs include EPC fee and project development, which include permitting, preliminary engineering design, and the owner’s engineer and financing costs.
The cost estimates provided in the report are not intended to be exact numbers but reflect a representative cost based on ranges provided by various sources for the examined technologies. The analysis was done for energy storage systems (ESSs) across various power levels and energy-to-power ratios.
The capital cost, excluding EPC management fee and project development costs for a 100 MW, 8-hour tower direct33 thermal storage system after stripping off cost for CSP plant mirrors and towers was estimated at $295/kWh, of which $164/kWh (or $1312/kW) corresponds to power block costs operating on a steam cycle (Lundy, 2020).
Non-battery systems, on the other hand, range considerably more depending on duration. Looking at 100 MW systems, at a 2-hour duration, gravity-based energy storage is estimated to be over $1,100/kWh but drops to approximately $200/kWh at 100 hours.
Economies of scale—driven by hardware, labor, and related markups—are evident here, as is the impact of costs spread over a larger number of watts. Figure 3 shows a soft cost reduction of 62% between a 3-kW and an 11-kW system. Hence, as system sizes increase, the per-watt cost to build systems decreases.
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