Dublin Battery Energy Storage Project

Does ESB have a battery storage plant in Ireland?

Irish state-owned utility ESB on Wednesday opened a 75-MW/150-MWh battery energy storage plant, currently Ireland’s largest, at its Poolbeg site in Dublin. Image by ESB on Linkedin.

How many battery storage projects are there in Ireland?

More currently, according to our colleagues at Solar Media Market Research, which produces the Republic of Ireland Battery Storage Project Database Report, there are now 545MW and 609MWh of utility-scale BESS projects already operational in the Republic of Ireland.

What is the ESB battery project?

The battery is part of a project pipeline, representing an investment of up to EUR 300 million (USD 323m), that ESB is executing at sites in Dublin and Cork in support of Ireland’s climate targets and ESB’s Net Zero by 2040 strategy. The project at ESB’s Poolbeg Energy Hub in Dublin has been in operation since late November 2023.

What types of batteries can be stored in Ireland?

These include lithium-ion batteries, hydrogen storage, thermal storage, flow batteries and pumped hydro storage. However, thermal storage fell outside of the focus on electricity storage and the potential for additional pumped hydro storage in Ireland is considered to be fairly limited and so neither were modelled in detail.