The Cost of Renewable Electricity and Energy Storage in Germany

Renewable power generation, especially wind and solar power, is experiencing a strong expansion worldwide in Germany. With high shares of these methods power energy storage needed to enable demand-oriented supply even with weather-related fluctuations generation. Against the background based entirely on question arises as what total costs arise inclusion storage systems, which subject this article. The calculation model uses hourly resolved real data German electricity generation from years 2012 2018 determine required capacities. used range between 0.02 0.10 EUR/kW/h. The for considered storages are calculated on Levelised Cost Storage (LCOS) metric. It concluded that an system solar it not causes greatest costs, but storage. With 0.06 EUR/kW/h, 0.19 to 0.28 This means that, terms more significant thanÂ