The challenges of procurement for utility-side storage and solar-plus projects center largely on early-stage decisions: defining the top-priority use case, but also exploring ways to get more value out of the project and to prepare for market changes over its life.
For standalone energy storage contracts, these are typically structured with a fixed monthly capacity payment plus some variable cost per megawatt hour (MWh) of throughput. For a combined renewables-plus-storage project, it may be structured with an energy-only price in lieu of a fixed monthly capacity payment.
Cliburn and Associates, LLC, led the project team, including North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC), Cobb Electric Membership Corporation, Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, United Power, and stakeholders from other co-ops and public power utilities and wholesale suppliers, market experts, and the energy storage industry.
In this case, the most likely cost-effective combination would be 2 MW PV, with 2 MW battery capacity, and 4 hours of storage duration—i.e., an 8 MWh BESS. Caution: This assessment is based on only one value stream (demand reduction).
Decide whether to include solar + storage projects in a procurement based on storage benefits for addressing energy cost savings and/or resilience use cases at specific sites.
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