Looking at the global potential, the water storage cost with SPHS varies from 0.007 to 0.2 US$ m −3 of water stored (Fig. 2a). This large cost difference is due to the variation in topography and water availability.
It is usually measured in watts (W). The energy storage capacity of a storage system, E, is the maximum amount of energy that it can store and release. It is often measured in watt-hours (Wh). A bathtub, for example, is a storage system for water. Its “power” would be the maximum rate at which the spigot and drain can let water flow in and out.
Table 1 shows a list of pumped hydro storage facilities, their work capacities, initial costs and costs adjusted to 2000 dollars. As can be seen from the table, while the initial costs of pumped water storage may have been $100/kW, those estimates are all from the 1970's.
Pumped storage hydropower plants will remain a key source of electricity storage capacity alongside batteries. Global pumped storage capacity from new projects is expected to increase by 7% to 9 TWh by 2030.
Stored water is released from the reservoir generating electricity when additional electricity generation capacity is required, or water is scarce. They can be compared to conventional reservoir dams, due to the possibility of regulating the river flow and increasing the hydropower generation on the hydropower dams in cascade 15.
For example: battery capacity cost per kWh = (cost of battery + installation cost + discounted maintainance costs and financing costs if a loan is used to purchase the battery) normalized to a capacity of 1 kWh. Levelized cost of storage (LCOS) quantifies the discounted cost per unit of released energy that was recovered from the storage device.
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