To wean itself off Russian natural gas, Europe has found new sources of energy, including imports from the United States. But high costs are straining the economy.
The levelised cost of electricity produced from most forms of renewable power continued to fall year-on-year in 2023, with solar PV leading the cost reductions, followed by offshore wind.
We also observed a large disparity between cost projections, particularly for solar photovoltaics and offshore wind, where the most optimistic investment cost projections
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Projections overestimate the costs of wind power and solar photovoltaics (PV) by excluding existing flexibility strategies like dispatchable renewables, demand response, and grid expansion, and by adding inflated integration costs due to low spatial and temporal granularity .
Unanimously, all studies project a decremental trend in capital costs during the studied timeframe, resulting in a projected cost range of 1300-2900 $/kW in 2050. In short, the cost projections for offshore wind technology showcase a consistent trend of reduction, signalling positive advancements in cost-effectiveness.
However, the overall average CAPEX for offshore wind technology in the current market (which is around 3500 $/kW) is considerably higher than that for onshore tech (∼1300 $/kW), differing by almost 3. 3.1.5. Li-ion battery storage
In the case of offshore wind technology, the projected cost reduction is slower than the historical cost evolution trend, though observed costs suffer from a large disparity. The spread in CAPEX can largely be attributed to outdated cost assumptions, and varying regional factors such as learning rates and soft costs.
Notable outliers in the cost projections for this technology are data for the IEA's global perspective and the NREL's projection for the U.S. [, ], being higher than the majority of projected cost ranges during the studied timeframe. 3.2. Levelised costs 3.2.1. Utility-scale PV
The current LCOE of utility-scale PV systems is lower than the anticipated costs of the majority of studies, indicating the fact that most of the analysed projections are overestimating the LCOE for this technology.
