Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector
2:00 am
Mr. Brian Brady:
This is really just to say what is there at the moment. We have to go back to Turlough Hill first off for energy storage because we are talking about all energy storage. In 1974, it was just under 300 MW, but really it is the growth of what we have seen in the past six years. In the past six years of energy storage, there has been a little bit over 750 MW of energy storage brought on the system. That has come from 19 connections or 19 sites.
That is the current stage. Nothing has been connected yet this year but we see three projects in front of us for this year of 19 MW. Two of those are very close to commissioning or are in the commissioning stage so I would say we will see them in the next few weeks or a couple of months. Three is what we see in front of us for this year.
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