Combining energy storage with renewable resources, especially solar panels, has been touted an inevitable combination or as an alternative to the elimination of incentives such as net metering. A new study by MIT finds that storage can make economic sense in today’s market in some instances, but that the opportunity might not last.
The MIT researchers found that as the cost of wind and solar power systems comes down, the cost of storage systems will need to come down as well or they will no longer be profitable because at some point it would be more profitable to simply add more generating capacity rather than more storage capacity.
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