Dunore Point Battery Storage | WEBINAR

Hosted by the CIWEM Northern Ireland branch

Event description

In a new first, a large electricity battery has been deployed at Dunore Point to work alongside the existing solar farm on-site. The battery works at Dunore have been enabled by £7.9 million of investment from Department of Infrastructure (DfI).

This 4.1MW battery can store electricity surplus energy from our 24,000 solar panels and make it available to our adjacent water treatment works at times when the sun is not shining. It also acts like a back-up power supply to provide greater resilient to our works and it gives us flexibility to avoid buying power at high-cost times.

By working with SONI, the electricity system operator, the new battery will power up on demand in short sharp bursts to counterbalance the instability in the national electricity system when renewable generators go on and offline. This helps to support the growth of renewables in NI.

The CIWEM Northern Ireland branch are pleased to have Damien O’Mullan, head of energy at Northern Ireland Water, and Matthew Craig, a civil engineer at Arup, to discuss the implementation of battery energy on the site.

CIWEM members and non-members are all welcome to attend this virtual technical talk.

Part of the CIWEM Climate Emergency Adaption and Resilience series.

Booking and joining information

This event is open to members and non-members of CIWEM.

This webinar will be hosted on the Zoom platform and will be recorded. Please note that registrations will close 24 hours before the event starts. If you have not registered before that time, unfortunately we cannot add you to the event. You will receive an email with joining instructions after you have successfully registered for the webinar and the registration has been approved by our team. If you have any questions about your booking or would like to cancel your attendance, please contact barbara.woods@ciwem.org.

Please make sure you add this event to your calendar, all you need to do is copy the body text of the joining instruction email, go to your Calendar, create a new calendar appointment, set the start and end date and time, paste the text and click the "Save & Close" button.

If you have any queries about this talk, please contact contact Andrew Harte (Chairman of CIWEM Northern Ireland branch) at Andrew.Harte@stantec.com or Matt Buchanan (Event Champion) at matt.buchanan@arup.com.