Google and energy storage company Energy Dome have announced plans for a battery storage facility near Rhode, Co Offaly.<\/p>\n
The project is located on the site of a former peat-fired thermal power plant.<\/p>\n
The facility will be developed, owned and operated by Energy Dome using its proprietary CO2 battery technology.<\/p>\n
The system works by using grid power to compress and store CO2, then, when power is needed, expanding the CO2 through a turbine to generate energy that is sent back to the grid.<\/p>\n
The project has secured planning consent and a grid connection.<\/p>\n
It has also been awarded a 10-year capacity contract by EirGrid and is expected to come online in 2028.<\/p>\n
“We are proud to work with Google on a project that strengthens grid resilience and unlocks the path to 24\/7 carbon-free energy in Ireland,” said Claudio Spadacini, Founder and CEO of Energy Dome.<\/p>\n
“This project is the first commercial bilateral deployment under the strategic partnership between our companies, which aims to develop CO2 Battery projects across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific,” Mr Spadacini said.<\/p>\n
Head of Google Ireland Vanessa Hartley said Google is committed to using next-generation energy technologies to bolster grid resilience.<\/p>\n
“This milestone is a next step in our long-term partnership with Energy Dome and will help scale their promising long-duration energy storage technology, charging ahead to an affordable, secure and clean energy future,” Ms Hartley said.<\/p>\n
Data centres accounted for 22% of electricity usage in Ireland in 2024, up from just 5% in 2015.<\/p>\n
It is estimated that the consumption level will grow to almost a third of the national electricity demand by 2030.<\/p>\n
In January, the Government published a Large Energy Action Plan aimed at enabling the further development of energy-intensive facilities, including data centres.<\/p>\n
It followed the lifting of an effective moratorium on new data centre connections.<\/p>\n
In December, the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities announced that data centres could be built where they meet at least 80% of their annual energy demand through new renewable electricity sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google and energy storage company Energy Dome have announced plans for a battery storage facility near Rhode, Co…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-514786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}