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  • Energy storage and flexibility

    EirGrid and SONI assess future demand and generation landscape

    Transmission system operators (TSOs) EirGrid and SONI have issued the All-Island Generation Capacity Statement 2020-29 that sets out expected electricity demand together with the level of generation capacity that will be required over the next ten years.  Issued on 27 August, the Statement said RoI demand is increasing, and is forecast...

  • Home supply and services

    Not mushroom for competitive prices: Switching behaviours in the SEM

    The Commission for the Regulation of Utilities (CRU) published its August 2019 Customer Switching Report for the Electricity and Gas Retail Markets on 24 September. In this edition of the blog, we compare monthly switching trends with CRU’s quarterly Electricity and Gas Retail Markets Report to explore whether fluctuations in...

  • Low carbon generation

    Make my dreams come true: Ireland and Corporate PPAs

    Corporate Power Purchase Agreements (CPPAs) are very much in the news both internationally and in the Irish market. Amazon’s recent announcement of Ireland’s first unsubsidised CPPA, an agreement with the proposed 91.2MW Meenbog wind farm, is an exciting development. This deal follows the 4 February 2019 letter from Minister Bruton...