The company is broadening its products as rivals like EMC and BMC Software try to increase sales of software, which is more profitable than storage devices.
Hoehner conceded that after accounting for the present cost of battery storage "even in Germany, the investment in a PV system without storage is more profitable". But, he added, "decreasing FITs [feed-in tariffs] will push the attractiveness of PV storage systems" – as will government incentives.
The debt holders, who took over the complex last fall and would like to resell it, have concluded that they need to put the storage space to more profitable use.
As the figure below demonstrates, adding storage makes investments in PV generation more profitable at any level of solar penetration, and in general the greater the storage capacity, the greater the upward pressure on revenues paid to owners.
Dell said the portion of its business coming from more profitable products continued to increase, with revenue from servers, storage products, workstations and notebook PC's at 48percentt of sales, up from 39percentt in the quarter a year earlier.
When the cost of the solvent tanks has been paid off, then the solvent storage scenario is 3.3% and 8% more profitable than the baseline for the pulverised coal and gas-fired power plants, respectively.
As Dropbox — the cloud storage company with 500 million users — gets more profitable and inches towards an IPO, the company is slowly adding more features that cater to the lucrative business market.
They signify that the heat recovery system without a heat storage opportunity can be considered to be a more profitable solution for the energy efficiency increase in a plant.
The computer maker has been hit by the rising popularity of tablet computers and is diversifying into more profitable areas of technology, such as business software, data analytics and storage.
H-P is eager to become a player in the more profitable computer service market that I.B.M. dominates, as well as those for high-end servers and memory storage networks.
