Battery storage hits $65/MWh, a tipping point for solar
29 points by toomuchtodo
by tim333
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$65/MWh is 6.5c per kWh, presumably to store and retrieve it once. I pay about 35c per kWh so there seems room for that to work for me although somehow in the UK everything seems to cost five times as much.
A Tesla Powerwall2 retails for about $13k for 13kWh. No way the raw manufacturing costs are $65 for 77 of them.
by ggm
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The chart is killing me: cuts off at 23:00
It's on about 5 websites now. Grrr!
by thelastgallon
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Vertical solar should expand production at both ends.
by metalman
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this is only the first serve from solar battery powered electric grid's.
sodium batteries will drop costs and eliminate* fire hazards.
ultra high power density supper caps are on the way, which put humanitys power requirements into the solved, category.
the key piece of data on batteries is that all matter in the universe is a charge carrier, and the full number of possible compounds and methods of storing energy is
the sum total of everything that is possible, in the universe.nothing less.
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