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BATTERY ECONOMICS

Death by a thousand charges

Battery charging and discharging regimes mostly attempt to maximize potential profit by following price signals. Combining a technical understanding of batteries with financial theory, researchers now present a framework that allows optimization of economic benefits considering both potential revenues and battery degradation.

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Fig. 1: Potential impact of using the framework on energy storage project profitability.

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Beuse, M. Death by a thousand charges. Nat Energy 3, 363–364 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-018-0151-y

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