InnovationWhat’s Holding Ireland Back?

September 2013

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How does Ireland Rate in 2013?

Innovation

● 10th of 142 profiled economies.

● 7th in terms of European economies

● Notes Germany is classified as 15th and 10th respectively

● Ireland has the local dynamics to foster innovation:– Strong high-tech knowledge-based sector

– Centres of Research Excellence

– Track record of FDI by multinationals

– Continued SME spin-off

● Position has fallen from 9th in 2012

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Ireland’s Innovation – Strengths & Weaknesses

Innovation

● Institutions – 8th

● Human Capital & Research – 9th

● Market Sophistication – 8th

● Business Sophistication – 6th

● Knowledge & Technology outputs – 4th– Switzerland – 1st

– China – 2nd

– Israel – 3rd

Strengths● Creative Outputs – 26th

● Infrastructure – 37th

– ICT – 41st

ICT Access

ICT Use

Government eServices

Citizen eParticipation

– General Infrastructure – 68th

Infrastructure construction

Weaknesses

ESB’s Innovation will help Ireland’s cause

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Bloomberg Global Innovation Index

Innovation

● Ireland is ranked 12th in Bloomberg’s Global Innovation Index– R&D Intensity – 21st

– Productivity – 8th

– High tech Density – 19th

– Researcher Concentration – 21st

– Manufacturing Capability – 7th

– Tertiary efficiency – 9th

– Patent Activity – 32nd

● Other rankings of note:– United Kingdom – 18th

– Germany – 3rd

– South Korea - 2nd

– United States – 1st

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Internet / Broadband Availability & Performance

Innovation

● Akamai Technologies report Q1 2013– Average broadband speeds

● 1st – South Korea – 15 Mbps

● 7th – Switzerland – 8.7 Mbps

● 15th – Ireland – 6.6 Mbps0

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Other observations from ESB

Innovation

Competition / 3rd Level Silos ● ESB’s interactions with 3rd Level Institutes show:– Significant similarities in innovation

programmes

– Duplication (from industry perspective)

● Recent positive steps– SEES Cluster

– IERC model

– SFI Hub & Spoke model

– Strategy for re-organisation / consolidation of Institutes of Technology

Further co-operation is necessary

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How can ESB’s innovation help?

Innovation

●Next Generation Broadband rollout

●Emerging Renewable Generation

●ESB’s Demonstration initiatives– Smart Green Circuits

– North Atlantic Green Zone

– EV Charging Infrastructure

– FINESCE Project

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FTTB – Delivering Next Generation Broadband

Innovation

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High Voltage stations

ESB Fibre Network Medium Voltage electrical network

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Electrical equivalent to Homes Passed

Next Generation Broadband - Reach

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Pre-commercial project

First wave energy farm in Ireland

Pave the way for commercialisation through:

delivering 5MW small-scale array at acceptable cost

demonstrating technology readiness

developing the supply-chain and

developing public acceptance

NER300 funding

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WestWave Progress

Technical Dialogue

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• Self Healing Networks• Network – Automation• Innovative Protection and Fault

Diagnostics• Dynamic Sectionalising• Voltage Conservation

Reduction• Low Loss Transformers• 20kV Conversion

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Potential benefits:Reduce customer interruptions by 40%Reduce customer minutes lost by 70%Significant reduction in losses

Smart Green Circuits

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North Atlantic Green Zone

A proposed Project of Common Interest between Ireland and Northern Ireland

1. Implement the newly trialled technologies (previous slide) on a blanket basis

2. Increase network efficiency and deliver energy reductions of over 3%

3. Improving the security of supply – reducing customer interruptions by 54%

4. Assisting to Reduce wind curtailment from a potential 25% to 8%

5. Pave the way for follow-on Demand Response initiatives

This PCI will position Ireland favourably for further innovation in Smart Grids.

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Electric Vehicles – Infrastructure

National trial • 95% of major towns and cities already covered

• Fast Chargers on interurban routes

Charge point types• Home (3.6kW)

• Public AC (22kW)

• Fast/Rapid/Quick (43-50kW)

Installations already completed..• 628 Public charge points

• 44 fast chargers installed

• 700 + Domestic / commercial

EV Charging Infrastructure

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Future Internet Smart Utility Services (FINESCE)

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What can Ireland do in each of these areas?

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In Summary

● Ireland positioned reasonably well in terms of global innovation metrics

● One area where we can improve is in ICT Infrastructure / Broadband connectivity and access

● ESB firmly believes that further cooperation between the 3rd Level Institutions and between 3rd Level and Industry can boost innovation

● ESB’s Innovation focus will support Ireland’s and Europe’s cause:– Next Generation Broadband

– Emerging energy technology demonstration

– Large scale demonstrations - Test Bed for Innovation

● ESB looks forward to continuing to play a significant role in energy innovation and in the area of ICT convergence with operational energy technologies.

● Through our innovation, we can help deliver Eurelectric’s Innovation Action Plan.