Comment by elihu
1 year ago
$219,000,000.00 / 185,000 kwh = $1,183.78 per kwh.
Seems kind of on the expensive side, but maybe it's reasonable for this kind of project -- and there might be some big one-time costs like connecting the site to the power grid.
Seems like there's a lot of room to drive costs down though. Some company could plausibly buy the batteries for $100/kwh, sell a completed power station for $200/kwh, and still make a profit.
You mixed up Power and Energy.
Ah, you're right, I copied the wrong number. It's 565 MWh of storage not 185MWh.5.
$219,000,000.0 / 565,000 Mwh = $387.61/kwh. That's a bit more reasonable. That's not that far out of line with paying retail prices for reputable-brand LFP cells in the U.S.
https://www.thunderstruck-ev.com/calb-l173f163b.html