Economic top-down evaluation of the costs of energy storages-A simple economic truth in two equations

Journal of Energy Storage

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 43-46

  Rathgeber, Christoph ^a   Lävemann, Eberhard ^a   Hauer, Andreas ^a  

^a BAVARIAN CENTER FOR APPLIED ENERGY RESEARCH ZAE BAYERN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Latent heat storage; Present value annuity factor; Sensible heat storage; Storage capacity costs; Thermochemical heat storage

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HEAT STORAGE; INVESTMENTS; LATENT HEAT;

DEVELOPMENT AND UTILIZATIONS; ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS; ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES; INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGIES; PRESENT VALUE; SENSIBLE HEAT STORAGES; STORAGE CAPACITY; THERMO-CHEMICAL HEAT STORAGES;

COSTS;

EID: 84938084929     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2352152X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.est.2015.06.001     Document Type: Article

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