Utility ESB inaugurates Fluence 19MW BESS in Ireland

• State-owned Irish electrical utility ESB has actually opened a 19MW/38MWh battery power storage system (BESS) in Aghada, County Cork, given by system integrator Fluence.

The fast-acting BESS will help supply grid stability and also incorporate even more renewable energies on Ireland's electricity system, ESB claimed on Friday, 15 July.

ESB president Paddy Hayes showed the project lies at the same site as the utility's Aghada 708MW gas plant.

Paul McCusker, Fluence head of state of EMEA, stated: "The project is developed with making use of our Gridstack energy storage item that can respond within 150 milliseconds and also supply approximately two hrs of discharge at full power."

It is the very first of 4 BESS projects both business are co-developing in Ireland, amounting to 308MWh. A 60 MWh BESS in Inchicore, Dublin, is set to come online this year also, while projects in Poolbeg as well as South Wall schedule for completion in early 2023.

Irish firms Powercomm Group and also Kirby Group are offering design, purchase as well as construction services for the projects.

The projects will aid Ireland in reaching its 2030 sustainable electricity generation target of 80%, and also ESB in its Net Zero by 2040 method.

The nation mounted 708MW of BESS projects in 2021 according to research and also working as a consultant company Delta-EE, but prepares to interconnect with the French market imply the firm is anticipating a decline in annual deployments over the following couple of years to around 300MW of brand-new enhancements in 2024.

The appointing of the Aghada site brings Fluence's total BESS projects deployed or gotten around the world to virtually 5,000 MW, the firm claimed.