Battery cells have reached the 100 USD/kWh threshold at the end of 2020, and continue to decline. The new Na ion batteries are projected for 40% of the price of a Li ion battery. This will be a game changer.
$35/kWh may be a reasonable price for a used battery sitting on a pallet somewhere. But that battery requires a whole host of sophisticated electronics to be converted to a functional "packet" (not the least of which is fire suppression), sitting on a larger pallet. the price is now say $45/kWh? A reasonable price for siteing, assembling the packets in parallel and connecting to the grid and the windfarm will double the price. Likewise, the $80/kWh new battery price is without packaging and connections. No honest person will project the installed cost "someday" at less than $160/kWh, or less than $200/kwh with new batteries, $100 kWh with used batteries for installation in 2021-2022. Hopelessly expensive, give it up: N2N. See NuScale SMR's & TerraPower, Bill Gates' molten salt reactors, both scheduled for operation yet this decade if you're afraid of CO2 (plant food), otherwise CCGT for at least the next 30 years.
Battery cells have reached the 100 USD/kWh threshold at the end of 2020, and continue to decline. The new Na ion batteries are projected for 40% of the price of a Li ion battery. This will be a game changer.
I think, we need a re-calculation in 2-3 years.
$35/kWh may be a reasonable price for a used battery sitting on a pallet somewhere. But that battery requires a whole host of sophisticated electronics to be converted to a functional "packet" (not the least of which is fire suppression), sitting on a larger pallet. the price is now say $45/kWh? A reasonable price for siteing, assembling the packets in parallel and connecting to the grid and the windfarm will double the price. Likewise, the $80/kWh new battery price is without packaging and connections. No honest person will project the installed cost "someday" at less than $160/kWh, or less than $200/kwh with new batteries, $100 kWh with used batteries for installation in 2021-2022. Hopelessly expensive, give it up: N2N. See NuScale SMR's & TerraPower, Bill Gates' molten salt reactors, both scheduled for operation yet this decade if you're afraid of CO2 (plant food), otherwise CCGT for at least the next 30 years.