An Irish entrepreneur is recycling old Nissan leaf batteries and has begun turning some of them into energy storage for the home.
Eamon Stack founded Range Therapy - a social enterprise working on engineering solutions to address climate change.
For 5 years, his company has been doing battery pack swaps from Nissan Leaf cars, but in the last year they have been able to turn 15 older packs into home energy storage.
Eamon says the technology for achieving this has matured and they now have 100 customers queuing up for their home battery.
A lead adviser from the Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority, Vince Smart, says home storage is a great idea as a second life for batteries from older electric vehicles.
The Nissan Leaf is the most common second hand EV here - but Vince says the batteries are proving more robust than some expect, and at the moment, the supply of unwanted batteries is low.
Eamon Stack and Hannah Daly after the installation of a battery outside Hannah's house. Photo: Supplied by Hannah Daly
