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With RESTORE 2, the Ministry is now seeking to fund energy storage systems with at least 10 MW of nominal AC power and a minimum of two hours of usable storage capacity. Projects can be connected either to Bulgaria's transmission or distribution grids.
All-in BESS projects now cost just $125/kWh as of October 2025 2. With a $65/MWh LCOS, shifting half of daily solar generation overnight adds just $33/MWh to the cost of solar.
MIT and Princeton University researchers find that the economic value of storage increases as variable renewable energy generation (from sources such as wind and solar) supplies an increasing share of electricity supply, but storage cost declines are needed to realize.
Lithium batteries address the inherent variability of wind power by providing a reliable storage solution that captures excess energy and releases it when needed. This capability is crucial for smoothing out the supply of wind .