Why Does a Microgrid Cost What it Costs?
Pricing out generation in advance helps give a starting point for anticipated costs, but anywhere from 20-80% of the total cost for a microgrid will go towards the design and construction of
The control system for the smaller microgrid will likely cost less in real dollars but consume more of the overall project budget than the control system for the larger one. “Your control system may be a little less [costly] in smaller ones, but it's going to be a much larger portion of the cost than in the larger one.
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.
Despite the relative novelty of the microgrid market and the challenges faced when discussing microgrid costs, it is a very useful exercise to collect cost information from the microgrid community and better understand component costs and differences from one project to another. The principal goal in Phase I of the study was to collect data.
The analysis of total microgrid costs per megawatt shows that the community microgrid market has the lowest mean, at $2.1 million/MW of DERs installed; followed by the utility and campus markets, which have mean costs of $2.6 million/MW and $3.3 million/MW, respectively. Finally, the commercial market has the highest average cost, at $4 million/MW.
Pricing out generation in advance helps give a starting point for anticipated costs, but anywhere from 20-80% of the total cost for a microgrid will go towards the design and construction of
Cost information for 80 microgrids was collected through a survey by directly contacting industry members and microgrid owners and from publicly available information.
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