Less than one week left to grab your early bird tickets! Registration is available at the link: events.windenergyireland.com/website/11723/…

Today is the last day for early bird tickets! Registration is available at the link: events.windenergyireland.com/website/11723/…

ESI Conference is this week! 😃 We're ready to go and very excited for a great day of networking and discussion of all things #energystorage There's still time to register: events.windenergyireland.com/website/11723/… Roll on Thursday! 💪

Today is the day! We are almost ready to go in Croke Park for #ESIConf23 A big thanks to our sponsors for the day ElectroRoute Mason Hayes & Curran LLP Sungrow Ørsted Fluence @Insight_Ireland @sserenewables ESB Group FuturEnergyIreland GridBeyond Statkraft Ireland

Brian Kennedy, Chair of Energy Storage Ireland introducing the ESI Conference 2023 #ESIConf23

John Finnegan, Principle Officer at @Dept_ECC providing the keynote speech at #esiconf23. John noted the key role that energy storage will play in Ireland's energy future, as well as outlining the Departments plans for storage

Ronan Doherty, CEO of ElectroRoute providing the main sponsor address at @ESIConf23. Ronan took us through the progress that has been made in our journey to a net zero system to date, while also highlighting the work that still needs to be done.

Terence McGovern, Director at KPMG Sustainable Futures KPMG Ireland presenting the preliminary results of their study commissioned by ESI exploring the investment and employment potential in the Irish energy storage sector. #ESIconf23

How do we accelerate energy storage delivery for 2030? In a session chaired by Kate Garth at RWE UK; David Carroll EirGrid Plc, Ken Stewart Sungrow, Terrence McGovern KPMG Ireland and Fergal Downes ESB Group gave their thoughts on the challenges and opportunities

Eoin Cassidy, Partner and Head of the Energy Sector Team at Mason Hayes & Curran LLP chairing the discussion on investing in energy storage in Ireland #ESIConf23

Jeff Kelliher, Specialist Consultant at TNEI presenting the results of the TNEI grid-based battery storage assessment commissioned by ESI, which aims to further understand the opportunities for battery storage in a 2030 scenario #ESIConf23

Laura Mehigan, Grid Services Manager at Ørsted discussing the positive investment signals for storage, as well as the changes that are still needed #esiconf23

Daniel Barnes, Head of Development - Ireland at @sserenewables sharing why battery storage matters, along with the investment drivers #esiconf23

Lisa Foley, Principal Consultant at @Insight_Ireland sharing lessons learned from an international perspective for the Irish market #esiconf23

And its time for the final session of the day; Dragons' Den! Welcoming our panel of Dragons, Lorcan Allen, Business Editor at Business Post, Andrew Clements, Director at Asper Investment Management, and Kate Tuohy, Director, Energy, Structured Finance Office EMEA, at MUFG EMEA

And we have our first pitch at the ESI Dragons' Den Session! David Hill, Director of Commercial Operations at Form Energy presents to the audience Form Energy's iron-air battery technology #ESIconf23

Lizzi Gold, Business Development Manager at RheEnergise Energy Storage presents RheEnergise's high-density pumped hydro storage solution #esiconf23

Sarah Griffiths, Vice President, Government & Regulatory Affairs at @Hydrostor discusses Hydrostor's compressed air energy storage which uses their patented A-CAES technology at #ESIconf23

Dr. Marek Kubik, Managing Director - Western Europe Sales at Fluence makes the case for why lithium-ion battery storage can act as a competitive long duration storage solution at the #ESIconf23 Dragons' Den session

And the winner of the Dragons' Den session was...Lizzi Gold, RheEnergise Energy Storage, with their high-density pumped hydro storage solution! Thank you to all of the participants in the session, which was an excellent showcase of the innovation we are seeing in the sector!