Despite the frantic start to the year as projects battled to meet testing and contracting deadlines in the face of Covid-19 delays it has been a fantastic achievement by the industry as four new BESS projects have begun operations and […]
It has been another busy quarter for the storage industry with a number of our members progressing projects in construction and dealing with the uncertainty that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused in terms of project timelines for the upcoming DS3 […]
Energy Storage Ireland (ESI) has just completed a survey of its members and the results show that the pipeline of battery storage projects in Ireland and Northern Ireland is very strong with 54 projects, making up just under 2.3 GW […]
The Saving Power report, published jointly by Energy Storage Ireland and the Irish Wind Energy Association, shows how a strong electricity grid and new low-carbon technologies are essential to achieving Ireland’s 70 per cent renewable electricity target by 2030. Its […]
Energy Storage Ireland is delighted to publish an information paper on the characteristics of Grid-Scale Battery Energy Storage Systems and how safety is incorporated into their design, manufacture and operation. It is intended for use by policymakers, local communities, planning […]
Ireland’s electricity sector is changing, and this change will need to speed up over the next decade if Ireland is to achieve the 70by30 Government target for electricity generated by renewables. Ireland’s existing electricity market, the SEM (Single Electricity Market) […]
Energy Storage Ireland is delighted to publish our Quarter 2 Policy Update for 2020. It has been quite a busy quarter following the launch of ESI as we seek to grow the visibility of the brand, take on new members […]
Energy Storage Ireland member, innogy, has announced that they will begin construction this year on a 60 MW battery project in Co. Monaghan. The project is expected to be commissioned in 2021 and will provide valuable system support to the […]
Energy Storage Ireland member, Statkraft, has finished construction on an 11 MW battery in Co. Kerry and expect the project to be fully operational and providing services to the grid in April 2020. This is a great milestone for energy […]
This all-island storage roadmap provides an overview of the role energy storage can have in the safe and reliable operation of a grid with high levels of renewable energy integration and the benefits that energy storage can deliver in terms […]