Economics of residential photovoltaic battery systems in Germany: The case of tesla’s powerwall

Batteries

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Truong, Cong Nam ^a   Naumann, Maik ^a   Karl, Ralph Ch ^a   Müller, Marcus ^a   Jossen, Andreas ^a   Hesse, Holger C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy storage; Home storage; Lithium ion; Self consumption; Stationary energy storage; Storage cost

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; HOUSING; INVESTMENTS; LITHIUM; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

BATTERY SYSTEMS; HOME STORAGE; INVESTMENT COSTS; LITHIUM IONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC/BATTERY SYSTEMS; POWERWALL; RESIDENTIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC; SELF-CONSUMPTION; STATIONARY ENERGY STORAGES; STORAGE COSTS;

COSTS;

EID: 85065506095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23130105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/batteries2020014     Document Type: Article

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