Proactive Planning for End of Life: Decommission, Augment, or Repower?

Synopsis

Over a lifecycle, the costs of dealing with degradation must be considered in the project’s base case. To do so, we must consider the balance in trade-off between near term and long-term costs.

• When is the best time during a battery’s lifecycle to start thinking about end-of-life strategies?
• Project overbuild versus additional capacity
• Pragmatic strategies for augmentation, how to plan for them during project development and associated costs
• Impact of sizing and risk appetite
• Degradation analysis and the impact on the project’s financial model