Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Long-Duration Energy Storage: Discussion
11:00 am
Mr. Bobby Smith:
Yes. There are different flavours of energy storage in that sense, which we find interesting. There is storage that can provide energy for hours, which can meet within-day changes in demand and supply, and there is storage that can do that over days or even weeks, such as the 100-hour storage Mr. Blount was talking about earlier. There is also more of a strategic asset of storage, such as seasonal storage, which can get us through potentially weeks of a cold snap when we need that. There are different elements for doing this. We might not necessarily do it all in one procurement framework, but it is certainly something we could consider as part of designing it.