Events

ESI Annual Conference 2023

Join us in Croke Park, Dublin on 21 September for the Energy Storage Ireland Annual Conference 2023! The energy storage industry in Ireland has gone from strength to strength with nearly 700MW of battery storage now operational on the island and a further 4GW in the development pipeline. However, with uncertainties around access to the grid and future revenue streams we must focus on delivering the policies and market frameworks that will support the energy storage investments needed for Ireland’s clean energy transition. The ESI Conference 2023 will focus on topics such as accelerating deployment of energy storage, the investment landscape in Ireland and the outlook for new long-duration storage technologies.

You can register for the Conference and see more details below:


ESI Partnership with the Energy Storage Summit 2023

We are delighted to announce Energy Storage Ireland’s partnership with the Energy Storage Summit 2023!


The Summit will take place from 22-23 February 2023 in the Leonardo Royal Hotel in London.

As an official partner of the Energy Storage Summit 2023, we are happy to inform you that ESI members can unlock a 20% discount on the standard ticket price by using the code ESI20

The annual Energy Storage Summit brings together a large audience from across the global energy storage industry and is a great opportunity to meet investors, policymakers, developers and service providers etc. There will also be a specific Irish focus at it as ESI will be leading a roundtable discussion on the Irish market during the first day.

We look forward to seeing you there!


ESI Partnership with the Energy Storage Global Conference’s 5th edition

We are pleased to announce Energy Storage Ireland’s partnership with the fifth edition of the Energy Storage Global Conference (ESGC), that will be held at Hotel le Plaza, in Brussels and online, on 11-13 October 2022. ESGC 2022 is organised by the European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) with the support of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.

The Energy Storage Global Conference offers the opportunity to industry, researchers, and policymakers to exchange views and debate key issues faced by the energy storage sector.

The 3-day conference will also explore the extent to which energy storage can help avoid dependency on fossil fuels in order to balance the electricity system. Representing the whole value chain of energy storage, each day will be dedicated to a specific topic: Policy, Market and Technology. For more information, please consult the preliminary programme.

Following the success of last year’s hybrid event, despite the complex context of the health crisis, the conference gathered more than 350 participants and over 100 speakers from 37 countries worldwide; this year, the Energy Storage Global Conference 2022 will attract over 500 top-level energy storage professionals and policymakers.

To register for the conference, please click on this link.

For further information, please visit www.esgc.org.


Energy Storage Ireland 2022 Annual Conference Recap

It was fantastic to see such a great turnout for the ESI Conference 2022 with over 200 attendees! Besides it being the first occasion for many of us to meet in person it shows just what a great success story the energy storage industry has been in Ireland and Northern Ireland and how the potential is there for us to continue to deliver great things.

We were delighted to have Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications & Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan open the conference. The Minister emphasised the key role that energy storage will play in our energy transition and highlighted the unique expertise we have here in integrating renewables that we can use to scale up our energy storage capacity. We look forward to engaging on the upcoming national energy storage policy consultation flagged by the Minister.  

The keynote sponsor address was delivered by Tom Birney, Senior Grid Services Engineer with Statkraft Ireland who echoed the calls for a coordinated energy storage policy framework with the key message “If we want to reach our RES-E targets, there is an urgent need for growth in energy storage. Time is of the essence”.

We also heard from new ESI Chairperson Brian Kennedy of ElectroRoute who called for increased cooperation and engagement between industry and stakeholders to overcome those issues still faced by energy storage if we are to unlock the enormous potential storage can deliver.

Energy storage policy for net-zero was the focus of our first panel discussion with Dr Mark Turner from Baringa Partners presenting our new Game Changer report. This report shows how energy storage can reduce all-island power sector emissions by 50% and save consumers over €85 million per annum by 2030. Mark was joined by Daragh Reddin of the Department of the Environment, Climate & Communications and Dr Áine O’Grady of ESB Generation & Trading to discuss the energy storage landscape for the next decade.

The house was packed for our next session with Dan Monzani of Aurora Energy Research, Brian Kennedy of ElectroRoute, Alex Done of Modo Energy and John Pollard of NTR Plc providing some excellent insights on the evolution of markets and opportunities for battery storage in Ireland while wading through some tricky technical questions on supercapacitors (a thing that stores energy apparently), flywheels and grid forming inverters!

In the afternoon we dived into frameworks to incentivise long-duration energy storage technologies. Dr Michael Geyer of Malta gave a great presentation on his international experience with multi-hour storage while Dearbhla O’Brien of TNEI Ireland provided context on the specific grid issues Ireland faces. Paul Blount of FuturEnergy Ireland wrapped up the session by introducing the concept of a new long-term support scheme for energy storage similar to how RESS has driven wind and solar deployment.

Nick Warner of the Energy Safety Response Group had it right when he said we had saved the best for last as he and Dr Marek Kubik of Fluence closed out the conference by taking us through the best approaches to battery storage safety. We learned about the latest standards and storage systems, integrating safety at all stages of design, managing risks and engaging with the fire services.

All in all, it was great to see so many of you yesterday and it is such an exciting time for the storage industry here. We know there will be challenges ahead but I am encouraged by the passion, expertise and momentum in the industry which was evident yesterday that we can overcome these.

To view coverage of the event please click the links below:
Irish Times
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ESI Conference 2021

Our first ever conference held on 23 and 24 June 2021 was a huge success. You can read the post event summary here.