Statkraft’s Rory Griffin writes about the challenges and opportunities encountered in developing Ireland’s first-ever 4-hour duration battery storage project, which is co-located with a wind farm.

ABO Wind has commissioned its first standalone battery energy storage system (BESS), in Kells, Northern Ireland. 

Renewable energy company Statkraft participated in what it says was the largest dispatch of energy from battery storage to the Ireland grid to-date, on July 14th.

Microsoft will be the latest big tech player to use battery storage at data centres which will provide grid flexibility services.

Iberdrola has commissioned a battery storage system in Ireland that will contribute to grid security as more renewables come online.

Mitsubishi Power is entering the European energy storage market with four BESS projects totalling 371MWh for ION Renewables in Ireland.

Eirgrid and grid maintenance and construction group ESB Networks have released the full list of renewable energy projects to receive grid connection offers in Ireland through their enduring connection policy (ECP) process.

Norwegian utility Statkraft has completed the construction of its second large-scale battery storage project in the Republic of Ireland.

Up to 140MW of capacity will be procured under the first ever tender for Ireland’s new frequency response and balancing programme, with projects to go live by September 2021.

Over 370MW of energy storage projects, along with 1.25GW of solar, have been successfully moved into the ‘first batch’ of projects to be processed under a new connections procedure, brought in to tackle the surging levels of smaller projects aiming to connect.