Our innovation team accelerates the pace and scale of delivery of our strategic objectives to decarbonise electricity, develop resilient infrastructure and empower customers whilst supporting the development of our people.
Our innovation strategy supports both incremental innovation to improve existing business models and transformational innovation to develop new areas of business. See below our Innovation Strategy 2026 and signposts on how we do innovation.
ESB eHubs is an innovative pilot project involving the installation of seven charge stations for shared electric cars, ebikes, and ecargo bikes. The aim is to assess if the provision of sustainable shared transport options helps enable the reduction of private car use, traffic congestion, and carbon emissions.
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Our engineers have developed an innovative technology to carry out jointing repairs to sub-sea electricity cables enabling cable repair to be undertaken while the cable remains in-situ on the sea-bed.
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We have set an ambitious and bold course of action to help Ireland achieve climate action targets and transition the country to reliable, affordable, net zero energy. Green Atlantic @ Moneypoint is a multi-billion Euro programme of significant investments on the County Clare site over the next decade.
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We are innovating for a net-zero future by leveraging technology, partnerships, and breakthrough solutions to transform energy generation, storage, and use.
We are partnering with global energy start-ups through the Free Electrons programme to co-create cutting-edge solutions for the future of energy and rolling out solutions across our group.
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We are building an innovation mindset across our organisation through experiential learning and crowdsourcing ideas together, in partnership with the UCD Innovation Academy.
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Collaboration is the cornerstone of innovation, and we believe that through this we can achieve our strategy to net zero through this important value.
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At ESB, we conduct extensive research and development into new technologies at various Technology Readiness Levels and publish an annual report each year highlight the breakthroughs in the technologies.
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Our Eco Partners Platform (Ecosystem) is a platform that is a key enabler of our digital transformation strategy, bringing together business and digital strategies with IT strategies, while allowing us to stimulate fresh thinking and doing safe innovation at speed. It is our vehicle to solving challenges in a digital world.
If you or your organisation would like to find or more about joining our Ecosystem, email info.ecopartners@esb.ie
We are a co-founder of the Free Electrons Programme, the global accelerator initiative that has allowed us to pilot energy solutions across our organisation.
If you are a start-up eager to present your solution and want to collaborate with us in our net zero journey then click on the link below.
X_Site is our incubator programme, providing relevant supports for cross value chain ventures to enable innovative projects to develop, grow and scale. The programme supports the development of new innovative projects by fostering exploration, learning and intrapreneurship with a start-up mindset.
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We are investing in next-generation energy solutions to drive a cleaner and more sustainable future. We work with external stakeholders, technology developers, consultants, energy start-ups, research organisations and staff to analyse and assess emerging technologies across power generation, flexibility, cross - energy and cross industry.
Read ESB's 2025 Emerging Technology Insights Report