Now you are just arguing for sake of arguing. I was replying to your context free claim which was simply untrue. If you go to system-level energy cost with the

Now you are just arguing for sake of arguing. I was replying to your context free claim which was simply untrue. If you go to system-level energy cost with the constraint that it has to cover demand all the time then of course you end up with different numbers. For me, I have a battery system. With the LCOE of about 65EUR/MWh. It's good for 6h in the winter and combined with solar probably good for the entire summer. Your numbers for battery cost are for installed capacity, but you are not using the battery one time, you cycle it thousands of times and therefore need to divide that 180k number by a number between 1000 and 10000 most likely. Problem for people in my latitude is seasonal storage, I don't believe batteries will ever be an efficient solution for that.