Mr. Stephen Douglas:

I thank the Deputy for his questions. One of our members, AES, built the first battery project in Ireland, in the North. It is a 10 MW array. There are a number of projects that are possibly in the hundreds of megawatts, as I understand it. The Deputy was asking about the pipeline and how we are going to get capacity that we need. The system services programme that EirGrid runs is where the smaller battery projects will be seeking to get a lot of their revenue. EirGrid has given long-term contracts to a number of projects. Also, it continues pay out to battery projects every day in terms of system services revenue. It publishes information around the volumes of services that it is procuring from battery providers and also the amounts it is spending on it. The Deputy will be aware that there is an overall expenditure cap for system services. EirGrid pays out to battery projects within that expenditure cap. The information on system services should all be available on EirGrid's website.