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The price of energy storage, an impact of energy storage technologies to environment, and costs of unpredictable energy distribution in the network does not see
by vilda 11y ago
The price of energy storage, an impact of energy storage technologies to environment, and costs of unpredictable energy distribution in the network does not seem to be calculated at all.
They are not trivial. Germany claims one trillion EUR direct costs on network upgrades to cope with renewable energy. They do not take into account energy storage costs. Even now (at least in my country) 75% of energy costs are distribution costs.
- EwanToo 11y agoI believe almost 70% of that cost is in feed-in tarriff payments, not network upgrades, and is spread over the next 25 years? http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Trillion-Euro_cost_of_German_energy_transition-2002137.html http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NP-Trillion-Euro_cost_of_G...
- RamezNaam 11y agoGermany gets roughly as much sunlight as Canada, and started installing solar when costs were 5-10x what they are today. They paved the way for future installations at lower costs, but their experience isn't directly applicable. Energy storage is indeed going to be vital once solar exceeds 10-20% of capacity. Energy storage, fortunately, is also dropping fast in cost:http://rameznaam.com/2015/04/14/energy-storage-about-to-get-big-and-cheap/ http://rameznaam.com/2015/04/14/energy-storage-about-to-get-... I have future posts coming with closer looks at the future of storage prices, wind prices, and possibly one on nuclear.