•Modelling framework for a PV microgrid by incorporating battery degradation.
•Battery degradation rates for five climatic zones of India.
•Trade-off between cost and reliability due to system degradation.
•End of Life of the battery related to acceptable levels of reliability.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2020.101565
(Rangan Banerjee and Prakash C Ghosh are other authors of this paper.)
