We are recruiting a Senior Communications & Public Affairs Specialist to build support for the policies and priorities of Ireland’s energy storage industry by developing and delivering key messages to critical political, industry, policy-making and media stakeholders. You can find […]
Our 2025 pipeline survey shows the potential of the energy storage sector in Ireland and Northern Ireland with nearly 10 GW of storage in development! We are pleased to release the results of our 2025 survey of the energy storage […]
Registration is now open for the ESI Conference 2025! The Conference will be held on the 26th June in Croke Park, Dublin. This is Ireland and Northern Ireland’s largest conference focused on the energy storage sector and brings together over […]
ESI has published recommendations for the Programme for Government highlighting the benefits of energy storage to Ireland’s energy security, electricity prices and decarbonisation targets. By supporting energy storage Ireland can enable more renewable electricity on the grid, reduce our reliance […]
We are very happy to announce the appointment of the new ESI Chairperson – David Farrell of ESB Generation & Trading! David is the Head of Onshore Development for ESB Generation & Trading. He is an experienced utility leader with […]
The Department of Environment, Climate and Communications published the long-awaited Electricity Storage Policy Framework for Ireland on 4 July. This is the first national policy for energy storage in Ireland and as called out by Eamon Ryan, Minister for the […]
On 25 June, ESI was invited to attend the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Environment and Climate to discuss long-duration energy storage. Attending were Bobby Smith, Head of ESI, Brian Kennedy, ESI Chairperson and Paul Blount, Chair of ESI’s Long-Duration Energy […]
What is battery energy storage and why is it important? As battery storage systems become commonplace we may start seeing more questions like this. In a first of its kind piece of research, ESI worked with Interactions Research to carry […]
It was great to see such a large turnout at the ESI Conference 2024 in Croke Park, Dublin with nearly 300 attendees on the day. The potential in energy storage is vast and more than a few times storage was […]
Brilliant news coming from ESB Networks as we now have 1 GW of Energy Storage connected to Ireland’s electricity network! This figure includes 731.5 MW of battery storage projects and 292 MW from Turlough Hill pumped storage power station – […]