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Recent Eurostat data shows Ireland had the highest household electricity prices in the EU in euro terms. But is a euro-for-euro comparison really the fairest measure? Ireland's EU ranking looks different when our household purchasing power is considered.

Users can explore price data through interactive visualisations, choose price components and consumption bands, and create customised data downloads.

Ireland’s energy demand is growing unsustainably, perpetuating a range of social, economic, and environmental issues, and risking failure for binding climate obligations.

We have increased the depth of field on our emissions estimates, and now other greenhouse gases step into focus, alongside carbon dioxide.

Foolish or Fuel-ish – How can we shift our focus and our journeys towards away from private car dependence and towards a more varied and sustainable portfolio of transport options?

To keep transport emissions on track in the first carbon budget, Ireland would need to take every car, van, lorry, and bus off the road for the rest of the year – how can we change lanes to do better in the second carbon budget?

Like Dickens’ London and Paris, Ireland’s two key energy supply streams of imports and indigenous production exhibit a strong duality in their quantity and environmental impact.

SEAI’s Energy Statistics GIS team has just published a new online interactive dashboard to provide brand-new and never-seen-before data at the Community Level.

After energy prices skyrocketed during the recent energy crisis against the backdrop of a broader cost-of-living crisis, energy poverty grew as an issue for many households across Ireland.

Wednesday 20th of November 2024 is World GIS day. What exactly is GIS? Why does SEAI use GIS? And how can GIS provide insights for a just transition to a sustainable future? This blog and its ‘Story Map’ are here to answer these questions.

As face-to-face meetings rebound in the years after COVID-19, how can we adapt our business travel to minimise its climate effects? 

We must all rally around the “Big 5” measures that take us 90% of the way to our 2030 obligations.

Irish summer has arrived, with sunshine and (a little) less rain - why aren't we all riding our bikes?

New webpages on the SEAI website help users to visualise definitive annual energy data from the National Energy Balance.

A new report from SEAI helps illustrate key details of Ireland's energy supply in 2023 and the security of that supply.

New statutory instruments recently added to the Irish statute
books enhance SEAI's legal basis to collect energy data - find
out why that's good news for enhancing trust in Ireland's
national energy conversation.