Research and analysis

Storage cost and technical assumptions for electricity storage technologies

Report by Mott MacDonald providing updated costs and technical assumptions for electricity storage technologies.

• From: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Published: 24 August 2020

Documents

Storage cost and technical assumptions for BEIS - summary document (2018)

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Details

Mott MacDonald was appointed by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy to provide a consistent set of technical data and cost projections for representative electricity storage technologies that have been and will likely be commercially deployed in the future.

The report covers the following technologies:

• pumped hydroelectric storage
• compressed air storage
• thermal energy storage
• lithium-ion, zinc, and sodium-sulphur batteries
• flow batteries
• hydrogen storage
• new battery technologies

Published 24 August 2020