Electricity market integration of utility-scale battery energy storage units in Ireland, the status and future regulatory frameworks

Harnessing Curtailed Wind-Generated Electricity via Electrical Water Heating Aggregation to Alleviate Energy Poverty: A Use Case in Ireland

“…For example, since 2010, the SNSP limit in Ireland has increased from 50% in 2015 to 75% in 2022, with strategies in place to meet a 95% target by 2030 [16]. Ireland has a relatively isolated electrical system, so it experiences high amounts of unharnessed wind-generated electricity [12,14,17] while energy-balancing requirements are forecasted to increase significantly with greater penetration of wind energy [11,12,17,18].…”

“…Most (77%) Irish homes have a secondary electric hot water immersion fitted to domestic hot water tanks that acts as a backup or as an alternative to the boiler. Ireland, whose predominant fuel source is oil, has seen the average fuel price for households (EUR cent/kWh) [18] rise for electricity (22%), gas (32%), and oil (70%), with energy poverty in Ireland being at its highest recorded rate in 2022 [69]. It is known that to ration energy use, some fuel-poor householders routinely go without heat or electricity, with many allowing themselves very limited hot water [69].…”