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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

    Electric Car Reviews 2018

    • Caoilin Rafferty
    • 4 Min

    Reviews of electric cars from Irish people who bought an
    electric car in 2018

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    Communities
    Climate Action

    Solar PV grant

    • Brian O'Mahony
    • 4 Min

    We answer some of the most commonly asked questions about
    solar PV.

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    Electric Vehicles

    Electric car reviews

    • Caoilin Rafferty
    • 4 Min

    Caoilin Rafferty sat down with three electric car owners to
    find
    out what it's really like to drive an EV in Ireland.

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    SEAI's Large Industry Energy Network reduce their energy bills by €17.5 million

    • Jim Gannon, CEO at SEAI
    • 2 Min

    Jim Gannon, CEO at SEAI talks about the recent energy savings
    among Ireland's largest energy users and how addressing
    environmental and social issues can deliver growth and cost
    savings.

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    Business & Industry

    Energy management and performance at MSD

    • Mark O Connor, MSD
    • 3 Min

    Mark O Connor, MSD Global Centre of Excellence, talks to us about energy management and improving energy performance in MSD

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    Climate Action
    Energy Research

    It's personal. It's time to take climate action.

    • Jim Scheer
    • 7 Min

    Jim Scheer writes how we all need to feel personally
    responsible for climate change. This planet is our home after
    all...

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    Communities
    Climate Action

    Sustainable Energy Communities

    • Niamh Kirwan
    • 7 Min

    Niamh Kirwan chats to Dunleer Energy Team Manager, Eugene
    Conlon, about how community action is the key to tackling
    climate change.

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    Energy Research
    Renewable Technologies

    Developing District Heating in Ireland

    • Donna Gartland
    • 9 Min

    Donna Gartland, Executive Energy Planner with Codema -
    Dublin's Energy Agency, writes about developing district
    heating in Ireland.

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    Electric Vehicles

    Everything you need to know about the new EV home charger grant

    • Shane Prendergast
    • 4 Min

    We are now offering an electric vehicle home charger grant.

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    SEAI Achievements 2017

    • Jim Gannon
    • 3 Min

    Our CEO, Jim Gannon, speaks about SEAI's achievements in 2017
    and plans for 2018.

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    Energy Research

    How one Irish research team are using blockchain technology in the energy sector

    • Dr Lucy Corcoran
    • 4 Min

    A look at Smartblocks project from the research team in the
    Nimbus Centre.

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    New Year Resolutions 2018

    • Tom Halpin
    • 3 Min

    Tom Halpin gives his top ten tips on how you can lower your
    energy use in 2018.

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    Kids, they get it!

    • Emer Barry
    • 2 Min

    SEAI's One Good Idea competition offers students the opportunity
    to grow through the creation of an awareness campaign

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    SEAI's National Deep Retrofit Conference 2017

    • Tom Halpin
    • 2 Min

    SEAI will be hosting its inaugural Deep Retrofit Conference on
    June 21st in the Aviva Stadium, Dublin.

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    Climate Action
    Energy Research

    COP22 - High Expectations Follow Paris Agreement Ratification

    • Dr Eimear Cotter
    • 4 Min

    Dr Eimear Cotter gives her summary and thoughts from COP22,
    the Conference of the Parties, held in Marrakech.

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    Irish researchers advance cutting-edge solutions for a low carbon energy system

    • Dr Eimear Cotter
    • 5 Min

    Dr Eimear Cotter discusses how Irish researchers are advancing
    cutting-edge solutions for a low carbon energy system.

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