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Home Energy Upgrades

Protecting Swifts during a home energy upgrade

  • Orla Grant
  • 3 Min

While carrying out retrofit works, it is important for the contractor to check for nesting sites on the dwelling. This is particularly important before carrying out external wall insulation.

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Home Energy Upgrades

Invest in your Home Comfort with the government-backed Home Energy Upgrade Loan Scheme

  • 5 Min

Whether it’s topping up your attic or wall insulation, replacing old drafty windows and doors with more efficient ones, or swapping out your oil / gas boiler for a heat pump, energy upgrades are a smart investment for you and our planet.

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Climate Action

Winner of last year’s top prize at the SEAI Energy Awards encourages others to take part this year

  • Kim Buckley
  • 4 Min

Swords Pavilions Zero Team won ‘Energy Team of the Year’ at the 2024 event.

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Sustainable Energy
Business & Industry

Emerging opportunities from Ireland’s sustainable energy transition

  • Pavithra Ramesh
  • 4 Min

SEAI’s recent report suggests that Ireland’s supply chain will play a strategic role in the ongoing energy transition and further contribute to the nation’s economic growth and creation of jobs in the years ahead.

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Energy Research

Challenging assumptions about how people in Ireland heat their homes

  • Hannah Julienne
  • 4 Min

Heating is the single most energy intensive activity that takes place in Irish homes, but we haven’t had a good picture of how people actually heat their homes – until now.

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Business & Industry

Top Five Reasons to Attend the SEAI Energy Show

  • Kim Buckley
  • 2 Min

The Energy Show is a must visit for businesses and organisations interested in saving energy or switching to clean energy solutions.

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Energy Statistics
Featured

Stat Chat: A new first look at Ireland's Energy Supply

  • Dr. Emily Byrne
  • 5 Min

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

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Featured
Home Energy Upgrades

How we became the proud owners of a heat pump

  • Tom Halpin
  • 8 Min

Tom, from SEAI, shares his reasons for switching over to a heat pump in his home.

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Climate Action
Featured
Home Energy Upgrades

The value of a home energy upgrade

  • Dr. Ciaran Byrne
  • 8 Min

Interested in learning more about the 'value' of a home retrofit and why it should outweigh the cost, especially when it comes to the lifetime benefits you can expect.

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Electric Vehicles
Featured

A Year Driving Electric

  • Fergus Sharkey
  • 10 Min

Thinking of purchasing an EV? Hear from Fergus, who bought his first EV in 2023. Get an honest, practical and balanced view of what it's like to make the switch and drive an EV as the family car for last 12 months.

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    Electric Vehicles

    Experience the feel-good factor with an EV

    • Kerry Houlihan
    • 4 Min

    After over 40 years of driving petrol and diesel cars, Pat Sharkey switched to driving electric in 2017. And she has never looked back!

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    Climate Action
    Home Energy Upgrades

    Ireland's housing retrofit imperative

    • Jim Scheer
    • 7 Min

    Upgrading Ireland's housing stock to minimise the greenhouse
    gas emissions from heating, lighting and appliance use is a
    national priority.

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    Climate Action
    Communities

    Teaching Children about energy

    • Emer Barry
    • 4 Min

    We have created some fun and easy experiments to try at home with your children, to make learning about energy exciting and memorable for them.

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    Climate Action

    How to get your home to a BER B2, or better

    • Nóirín Byrne
    • 2 Min

    By improving the energy efficiency of your home, you can lower
    your energy bills, make your house warmer and more comfortable
    while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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    Electric Vehicles
    Renewable Technologies

    Electric Vehicles That 'Run On Sun' Are Here In Ireland

    • Nóirín Byrne
    • 4 Min

    Kevin Dowling is conscious about the impact his energy choices
    have on the climate and six months after buying an EV, he
    installed a home-charger and solar panels on his roof. so he
    can power up his EV using renewable electricity.

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    Energy Research
    Energy Statistics

    Explore Energy Trends in Ireland with New Online Portal

    • Denis Dineen
    • 3 Min

    SEAI produces Ireland's official statistics on energy use. To make our data more user-friendly, we have developed a new Energy Data Portal that will allow people to engage with energy statistics in a more interactive way.

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    Decarbonising Ireland Home and Business Heating

    • Jim Scheer
    • 6 Min

    As we plot our path to reduce carbon emissions from our use of heat in Ireland, policy design needs to grapple with some complex issues before broadscale change can be affected.

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    Women Blazing a Trail in the Irish Energy Sector: Patricia Comiskey

    • Nóirín Byrne
    • 3 Min

    Today and everyday we celebrate women in energy at the cutting edge of Ireland's clean energy transition

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    Women Blazing a Trail in the Irish Energy Sector: Dr. Lucy Corcoran

    • Nóirín Byrne
    • 4 Min

    Today and everyday we celebrate women in energy at the cutting edge of Ireland's clean energy transition

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    Women Blazing a Trail in the Irish Energy Sector: Sharon McManus

    • Nóirín Byrne
    • 4 Min

    Today and everyday we celebrate women in energy at the cutting edge of Ireland's clean energy transition

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    Climate Action

    Women Blazing a Trail in the Irish Energy Sector: Aine Macken

    • Nóirín Byrne
    • 5 Min

    Today and every day, we celebrate women in energy at the cutting edge of Ireland's clean energy transition

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    Women Blazing a Trail in the Irish Energy Sector

    • Nóirín Byrne
    • 3 Min

    To celebrate International Women's Day we will be featuring women in the Irish energy sector who are contributing daily to Ireland's clean energy transition.

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    Business & Industry
    Communities

    Bocan Community Creche Take Climate Action

    • Nóirín Byrne
    • 2 Min

    Bocan community creche is fully committed to sustainable energy which results in reduced creche costs for local families across the Culdaff area of Co. Donegal

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    Climate Action
    Energy Research

    Generation Renewable: decarbonising our national electricity & gas grids

    • Dr. Phil Hemmingway
    • 3 Min

    Major targets called out in Climate Action Plan include achieving 70% renewables on the electricity grid by 2030

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    Electric Vehicles

    Home-charger a 'game changer' for EV's

    • Nóirín Byrne
    • 3 Min

    An electric vehicle is low maintenance, cheaper to run and
    good for the environment. Hear from Derek, an EV drvier, show
    also recently installed his own EV home charger.

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    Climate Action
    Business & Industry
    Communities

    Time for giant steps

    • Tom Halpin
    • 4 Min

    Tom Halpin writes that now is the time to take giant steps in our sustainable energy journey

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