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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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    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.

    Find out more
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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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    Energy Statistics

    Stat Chat: Truth, Trust, and Timeliness

    • Lee Carroll
    • 3 Min

    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.

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    Home Energy Upgrades
    Renewable Technologies

    Are you ready for your new solar panels?

    • SEAI
    • 5 Min

    Are you getting solar photovoltaic (PV) panels installed at your home? Have you asked all the necessary questions of your solar PV Company and/or Installer? If in doubt, check this out.

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    Business & Industry
    Communities
    Energy Research

    Five reasons why you should enter the 2024 SEAI Energy Awards

    • SEAI
    • 3 Min

    Here are five good reasons to apply for the SEAI Energy Awards 2024.

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    Climate Action

    Sustainability in the Public Sector

    • Declan Meally
    • 13 Min

    By taking the lead in embracing sustainable energy practices, the public sector not only helps to mitigate climate change but also inspires citizens and businesses to join the movement towards a sustainable future.

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    Business & Industry
    Climate Action
    Communities
    Home Energy Upgrades

    A new landmark low-cost energy upgrade loan scheme

    • William Walsh, CEO at SEAI
    • 3 Min

    William Walsh, CEO at SEAI, gives his thoughts on the new low-
    cost loan scheme and how it supports home energy upgrades.

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    Business & Industry
    Climate Action

    Building a Greener Future Together: SEAI's Strategic Partnerships for a Sustainable Ireland.

    • Alison Donnellan
    • 3 Min

    SEAI expands the supports it provides across Irish Industry,
    through key strategic partnerships.

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    Energy Statistics

    Ireland's Energy Price Peaks

    • Teresa Bowe
    • 4 Min

    SEAI's latest surveys show that gas and electricity prices for businesses are going down and that businesses with very high energy consumption are seeing the biggest drops.

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    Home Energy Upgrades

    Your top 10 BER questions answered

    • Liam Wylie, SEAI's BER Team
    • 4 Min

    In this blog, SEAI colleagues answer the most commonly asked questions we get about building energy ratings (BER).

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    Business & Industry
    Featured

    Energy Efficient Design - why do we need it?

    • Jason Doherty
    • 5 Min

    Everyone knows that large businesses need to be more carbon efficient, but the question is, how? And what's the best approach?

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    Electric Vehicles

    Why have EV sales dropped in 2024?

    • Emer Barry
    • 4 Min

    The first three months of 2024 has seen the first ever reduction in EV sales. Emer Barry, SEAI, asks the question why, and examines some potential reasons for this drop.

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    Electric Vehicles

    Electric Vehicles: Reaching Price Parity

    • Conor Edgley
    • 5 Min

    Conor, from our EV team, examines the latest trends in the EV market and asks if we've reached price parity yet.

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    Communities
    Renewable Technologies

    Empowering Sustainable Energy Communities: A Guide to Solar Meitheal Projects

    • Eilish McCabe
    • 4 Min

    Discover the benefits to activating your own Solar Meitheal project, in your Sustainable Energy Community (SEC)

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    Climate Action
    Communities

    Young Environmentalist Awards: Pobal Scoil Neasain at the Eco Den Semi-finals

    • Aoife Cannon
    • 3 Min

    Aoife Cannon, Schools Programme Manager at SEAI shares her experience of being a judge at the Young Environmentalists Awards

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    Electric Vehicles
    Featured

    Fuel Price Comparison

    • Shane Prendergast
    • 5 Min

    Let's set the record straight on the new Fuel Price Comparison posters displayed now at fuelling stations nationwide.

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