Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 June 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Long-Duration Energy Storage: Discussion

11:00 am

Mr. Brian Kennedy:

I would just add it is quite invasive from an environmental perspective and they are some of the challenges we have seen in GB. Nonetheless, in the procurement mechanism for long-duration storage in GB, pumped storage is in there and can avail of a 40-year-contract term. As Mr. Smith says, if it can compete, it can be considered.