Existing hydropower facilities are forecast to offer the lowest indicative costs of any energy storage type. By 2030, figures were estimated to amount to some 55 U.S. dollars per megawatt-hour. By comparison, hydrogen storage would come with indicative costs of 530 U.S. dollars per megawatt-hour.
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