Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up
by toomuchtodo on Thursday December 05, 2019 @02:37PM
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With renewables knocking on 1 cent/kwh at utility scale, retail prices will go down, and the majority of the cost will be storage and transmission. You might expect prices to be higher at night (the reverse of now), as more of the light vehicle fleet moves to EVs and everyone charges their cars at night (unless you can incentivize workplace charging, when the sun is shining).
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Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up
by perilunar on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:10PM
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> You might expect prices to be higher at night
For people with rooftop solar and no batteries, that's already the case (depending on the feed-in tariff of course).
Saw an article about this today: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-05/solar-panels-rebates-...
Re:Battery Pack Prices Fall As Market Ramps Up
by toomuchtodo on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:24PM
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Yeah, definitely going to see tariffs disfavor rooftop solar (utilities don't want to be the "battery" if they can avoid it), which is going to increase battery uptake rate (to consume your own generation first instead of export it for no value to the grid), which will drive battery prices down faster.