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What is NREL's Bess cost model in 2023?

2023 costs for residential BESS are based on NREL’s bottom-up BESS cost model using the data and methodology of (Ramasamy et al., 2023), who estimated costs for only alternating current (AC) coupled systems. We use the same model and methodology, but we do not restrict the power or energy capacity of the BESS to two options.

What is NREL's storage futures study?

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL's) Storage Futures Study examined energy storage costs broadly and the cost and performance of LIBs specifically (Augustine and Blair, 2021).

Does NREL use a resource planning model?

NREL utilizes the Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) (Brown et al. 2020) and the Resource Planning Model (RPM) (Mai et al. 2013) for capacity expansion modeling, and the battery cost projections developed here are designed to be used in those models.

Can power and energy costs be used to determine utility-scale Bess costs?

The power and energy costs can be used to determine the costs for any duration of utility-scale BESS. Definition: The bottom-up cost model documented by (Ramasamy et al., 2022) contains detailed cost components for battery-only systems costs (as well as batteries combined with photovoltaics [PV]).

Will residential Bess component costs decline in 2050?

We assume residential BESS component costs decline by an additional 25% from 2030 to 2050, similar to the assumption used in the ATB utility-scale BESS cost projections in the 2022 ATB (Cole and Frazier, 2020).