Ireland will create a giant $130 million battery that will power the entire country for about three minutes

The Prime Minister of Ireland, Michael Martin, announced the construction of a giant energy storage facility. It is assumed that the full reserve will be enough for 3-4 minutes of operation of the entire country.

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The battery is being built as part of the Shannonbridge B program, in which $130 million will be invested. The design capacity of the energy storage will be 170 MW*h. The key goal of the program is to support the generation of electricity from unstable renewable sources.

The Irish government plans to put the storage facility into operation in 2024. 150 specialists are involved in the construction. The battery storage facility will receive a synchronous capacitor, which will be used to provide normal voltage levels to the grid.

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Ireland is the European leader in determined energy storage capacity. According to experts from Delta-EE, the country will have 1.4 GW of hybrid energy storage capacity by the end of 2022, compared to 5 GW across the European Union. The Shannonbridge B project will provide Ireland with 97.2 MW of additional capacity.

Source: The Journal