Ireland has lifted a de facto ban on connecting new data centers to the electricity grid around Dublin — a move that gives the industry long-awaited clarity on the requirements for building new facilities. Where developers once had a degree of certainty as part of the DS3, its ancillary market services framework, changes to that scheme are causing major uncertainty among. . New wholesale electricity market rules have been introduced in Ireland, designed to allow battery storage assets to participate directly. From 11 November, the Scheduling and Dispatch Programme (SDP) was launched. The major grid modernisation and flexibility initiative has been led by the two. . The server farms powering global tech giants now consume a fifth of the small nation's electricity, igniting concerns over both grid stability and Ireland's commitments to boost renewable energies and cut gas emissions. The skyrocketing power. . 1st December 2025, Dublin: Energy Storage Ireland (ESI), the representative body for Ireland's energy storage industry, has called on EirGrid to deliver the Government's 500 MW energy storage target by 2030.
