“Battery prices won’t keep sinking at same speed”
EUWID Neue Energie
Battery storage prices will not keep dropping at the same fast speed as in the last few years because further technological leaps could not be expected, Prof Uwe Sauer, of RWTH Aachen University, told renewables magazine EUWID Neue Energie. From a scientific point of view, there was no way around needing one lithium atom for each electron and falling prices could only be expected by increasing the batteries’ energy density, according to Sauer.
Find the issue of EUWID Neue Energie in German (for purchase) here.
For background read the CLEW dossier New technologies for the Energiewende.
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