Why is energy storage important?

Continued expansion of intermittent renewable energy, ESG-focused investments, the growing versatility of storage technologies to provide grid and customer services, and declining costs for key components like lithium-ion batteries all played a significant role in driving the investment and development of energy storage.

How to promote energy storage technology investment?

Therefore, increasing the technology innovation level, as indicated by unit benefit coefficient, can promote energy storage technology investment. On the other hand, reducing the unit investment cost can mainly increase the investment opportunity value.

How to choose the best energy storage investment scheme?

By solving for the investment threshold and investment opportunity value under various uncertainties and different strategies, the optimal investment scheme can be obtained. Finally, to verify the validity of the model, it is applied to investment decisions for energy storage participation in China's peaking auxiliary service market.

What are the factors affecting energy storage technology investment?

In addition, there are also many uncertain factors in technological innovation and market related to energy storage technology investment. On the one hand, Technological innovations appear at random points in time and investors are unable to make decisions between adopting existing and new technologies.

What is a continuous investment strategy for energy storage technologies?

For current energy storage technologies, the continuous strategy can significantly shorten the investment timing and enable investors to adopt the storage technology as early as possible; therefore, when new technologies are unavailable, the continuous investment strategy is the best choice.

Do multiple uncertainties and different investment strategies affect energy storage technology investment?

Thirdly, the impact of multiple uncertainties and different investment strategies on the energy storage technology investment is quantitatively evaluated by using the proposed model, and the interaction among policy, technological innovation and investment strategies is investigated based on the results.