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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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    Business & Industry
    Climate Action
    Energy Statistics
    Featured

    It's time to be unreasonable on climate action

    • Jim Scheer
    • 7 Min

    The National Energy Summit, a day with significant
    potential, but also with significant warning signs of missteps
    on our road to net-zero. It's time to be unreasonable on
    climate action.

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    Climate Action

    5 ways to reduce your use

    • Orla Grant
    • 3 Min

    The Government of Ireland recently launched a new energy awareness campaign asking people to 'Reduce Your Use'.

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    Climate Action
    Energy Research
    Energy Statistics

    Recognising change as a good thing

    • Margie McCarthy
    • 5 Min

    As the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) we are responsible for collecting, analysing, and publishing key data on Ireland's energy supply and demand.

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    Energy Statistics

    'Stat Chat' on Energy Prices

    • Mary Holland
    • 5 Min

    Energy prices in 2022 continue to make headlines and highlight Ireland's dependence on internationally sourced fossil fuels for our energy demands

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    Home Energy Upgrades

    All your questions about the new One Stop Shop Service answered

    • Louise Ryan
    • 7 Min

    This Q&A responds to the most frequently asked questions about the recent announcement.

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    Climate Action

    Post Cop26 - Climate Action in Ireland

    • Margie McCarthy
    • 8 Min

    Blog post by SEAI Director of Research and Policy Insights, Margie McCarthy. She describes Ireland's position post COP26.

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    Electric Vehicles

    Making a seamless switch to an EV

    • Orla Grant
    • 3 Min

    Hear from one Wicklow man who was inspired to get an EV after attending a climate change event.

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    Our Energy Future

    • William Walsh
    • 7 Min

    Following the launch of CAP 21, our CEO, William Walsh, has
    written a blog about our energy future and how our children
    will experience living in Ireland in 2050.

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    Home Energy Upgrades
    Reduce Your Use

    Take control of your energy bills

    • Orla Grant
    • 2 Min

    With the clocks going back this weekend signalling the arrival of wintertime, we're encouraging homeowners to take control of their winter energy bills.

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    Climate Action

    Shifting how we live and consume energy

    • William Walsh
    • 5 Min

    SEAI's CEO William Walsh examines how our energy use must change.

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    Home Energy Upgrades

    Home Energy Upgrade - 3 years on

    • Orla Grant
    • 2 Min

    Brenda Fleming shares her experience of her home energy upgrade three years on.

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    Climate Action

    Living within carbon budgets

    • William Walsh
    • 4 Min

    Upcoming carbon budgets are going to change the game when it comes to eliminating fossil fuels from our energy system, explains SEAI Chief Executive William Walsh.

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    Climate Action
    Communities

    Upgrades for Clondalkin community centre

    • Orla Grant
    • 4 Min

    Kilcronan Court and Place Community Centre, based in Clondalkin, Dublin, were awarded funding of almost €23,000 under the 2020 Community Energy Grant Scheme.

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    Business & Industry

    What happens during an energy audit?

    • Orla Grant
    • 4 Min

    Conor Molloy, president of the Association of Energy Engineers Ireland Chapter, has been an energy auditor for 15 years. Here he explains to us what exactly is involved in an energy audit for an SME.

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    Business & Industry

    SEAI's Support Scheme for Energy Audits

    • Orla Grant
    • 3 Min

    SEAI's new Support Scheme for Energy Audits (SSEA) offers financial support for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to get an energy audit.

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    Home Energy Upgrades

    Home energy upgrade through the eyes of a contractor

    • Orla Grant
    • 2 Min

    On our podcast 180 Degrees, we heard from contractor Eoin Madigan, who shared his experience working on deep retrofit projects.

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