Solo run for Cork energy firm

A Cork company is bringing energy solutions to the Orkney Islands, writes Trish Dromey.

Cork startup Solo Energy is set to provide a “virtual power plant” as a key technology solution for an ambitious £28.5m (€32.4m) project designed to make the Orkney Islands carbon free.

Company co-founder Killian O’Connor said this is groundbreaking technology which can be used to solve the problem of intermittency in renewable energy, allowing power generated at times of low demand to be stored and to be released to the grid at times of peak demand.