The island of Ireland’s battery storage pipeline has swelled to nearly 2.5GW, a new report unveiled by Energy-Storage.news publisher Solar Media can reveal. Here, the report’s author and analyst at Solar Media Lauren Cook dives into the detail and explores what’s driving that growth.

The pipeline of energy storage projects now established in the Republic of Ireland has reached 2.1GW, with an additional 330MW of projects located in Northern Ireland, according to the first release of the Solar Media’s new Republic of Ireland Storage Project Database Report.

The total pipeline is made up of a diverse range of projects, including co-location with renewables, stand-alone and behind-the-meter.

Over the past couple of years, Solar Media’s market research team has been tracking the growth of storage in Ireland. During this period, we have seen growing interest as the quantity of renewables connected to the grid increases.

This article looks at how the pipeline has developed over time and the characteristics of the projects now being planned in Ireland.

All data presented is taken from the new Republic of Ireland Storage Project Database Report. Details on how to access the report can be found through the link here.

Tracking activity in the Republic of Ireland has been ongoing at Solar Media for a number of years, across both solar and storage activity. This typically involves tracking planning applications through regional planning portals, alongside solar applications.

Initially the focus was on new solar applications. However, early on, we started to see an increasing number of planning applications for battery storage. The figure below shows how the number of planning applications has increased over time.