Energy storage system costs stay above $300/kWh for a turnkey four-hour duration system. In 2022, rising raw material and component prices led to the first increase in energy storage system costs since BNEF started its ESS cost survey in 2017. Costs are expected to remain high in 2023 before dropping in 2024.
You can add all of the cost lines together (in $) and divide them by the total power rating in kW (yielding a $/kW metric). Or you can add all of the cost lines together (in $) and divide them by the total energy storage in kWh (yielding a $/kWh metric).
Base year costs for utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) are based on a bottom-up cost model using the data and methodology for utility-scale BESS in (Ramasamy et al., 2022). The bottom-up BESS model accounts for major components, including the LIB pack, the inverter, and the balance of system (BOS) needed for the installation.
Such creative workarounds will become increasingly likely among Chinese companies, especially among those that are interested in expanding into the US. Energy storage system costs stay above $300/kWh for a turnkey four-hour duration system.
Costs are expected to remain high in 2023 before dropping in 2024. The energy storage system market doubles, despite higher costs. The global energy storage market will continue to grow despite higher energy storage costs, adding roughly 28GW/69GWh of energy storage by the end of 2023.
In the first half of the year, the capacity of domestic energy storage system which completed procurement process was nearly 34GWh, and the average bid price decreased by 14% compared with last year. In the first half of 2023, a total of 466 procurement information released by 276 enterprises were followed.
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