Full coverage: Electricity

As batteries get access to Ireland's power market, the CEO of Gore Street Capital talks new markets, new opportunities in old markets, and the need for electricity storage to prevent grid meltdown.

Ireland missed the first deadline last September and now again this May as it has still not transposed the EU laws underpinning the new transparency requirements.

The Greenlink Interconnector went into commercial operation in April. Built mostly on time and on budget, the project was the first privately financed interconnector in Europe. The Currency spoke to CEO James O'Reilly.

When the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities put out its much-anticipated proposals for data centre power connections, it was cautiously welcomed by many in the industry. But large gaps leave much uncertainty still.

Tech-driven power demand is adding strain to Ireland’s energy infrastructure, but it also supports the investment needed to make it greener. Don’t believe any of the black-and-white answers to this thorny question.

First, Ursula von der Leyen declared the EU’s power market was unfit for purpose, then her officials drafted a reform leaving it largely unchanged. Now MEPs want to reintroduce price caps. Who will win the battle over Europeans’ electricity bills?

A power generation unit of the global oil trading giant is acquiring more assets from a local developer in Ireland’s midlands.

The most divisive debate at the recent Wind Energy Conference focused on an apparently technocratic point of EU law, which ended up sparking a classical clash between advocates of the free market and state intervention. The electricity bills of 450 million Europeans are at stake.

Ronan Doherty was among the founders of ElectroRoute, the energy trading company fully acquired by Mitsubishi last year. He explains where his business sits in the increasingly interconnected electricity grid required to power Europe without fossil fuels.

GridBeyond’s CEO Michael Phelan discusses how the crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine has altered the way businesses procure electricity and weigh up solar and batteries investments – and questions the future of gas in the energy transition.