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title: Download the Mid-Merit S+S White Paper
description: MBA students at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new method of determining the levelized cost of energy for solar plus energy storage. They discuss their findings in this white paper.
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# Solar + Storage as a Mid-Merit, Utility-Scale Generating Asset
## Download the White Paper
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### In this white paper, MBA students at Carnegie Mellon University detail their findings:
- S+S may already be cost competitive with mid-merit natural gas plants in a number of wholesale electricity markets across the U.S.
- The students have developed a new method of determining the levelized cost of energy for S+S—net LCOE—taking into account the value of ancillary services storage provides to the grid.
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