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Finally, for each market segment and complexity level, we disaggregate microgrid costs per megawatt in six components: conventional generation, renewable generation, energy storage,
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Falling prices for renewable energy and battery storage heavily influenced a 30% decline in microgrid costs from 2014 to 2018, according to Peter Asmus, research director for Guidehouse.
In commercial/industrial and utility microgrids, soft costs (43% and 24%, respectively) represent significant portion of the total costs per megawatt. Finally, energy storage contributes significantly to the total cost of commercial and community microgrids, which have percentages of 25% and 15%, respectively, of the total costs per megawatt.
The analysis shows that controller cost data as a percentage of total microgrid costs have a wide range of costs among the projects in our database. In total, we had controller cost data for 21 microgrids out of a total of 80 projects. Controller costs per megawatt range from $6,200/MW–$470,000/MW, excluding outliers, with a mean of $155,000/MW.
Controller costs as a percentage of total costs range from 0.5%–21%, a median of 7%, and one outlier with a value of 56% (Figure 20.). The analysis shows that controller cost data as a percentage of total microgrid costs have a wide range of costs among the projects in our database.
For microgrid technology, it is particularly challenging to generalize costs because every installation has unique design and architecture characteristics that affect the overall cost of the individual microgrid components.
As with the main NREL microgrid database, soft costs for the NY Prize data include engineering, construction, commissioning, and regulatory costs. Soft costs were calculated as the sum of these four cost subcategories, even for projects that did not include information about each of the four subcategories.
This report is available at no cost from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at Giraldez, Julieta, Francisco Flores-Espino, Sara MacAlpine, and Peter Asmus. 2018. Phase I Microgrid Cost Study: Data Collection and Analysis of Microgrid Costs in the United States.
