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Solving for Storage - Ep122: Sir Chris Llewellyn-Smith

Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change

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The Cost of Power Per Megawatt Hour

Wind and solar is 33% bigger than demand if I assume that wind and solar costs 35 pounds a megawatt hour or come to different values in a minute. That gets me to 48 dollars something like that then there's 15% that at that level has to convert storage now the storage that will deliver 15% cost me about in a middle case 80 pounds a megwatt hour so I've got 1.33 times 35 plus 15% of 80 which is 12So when we put those together I add that with a cost of about 60 pounds a megweatt hour and then I say I've got to add a bit of contingency  and this is for the electricity fed into the

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