Introduction to Monitoring and Reporting

Achieving our National Energy Targets

All public bodies, including schools, must improve their energy efficiency by 33% by 2020. It is equivalent to 4,581 GWh across the entire sector (primary energy equivalent). It is up to each individual organisation to determine how the target can be best achieved. We are here to help.

Types of organisations who must report

The public sector is considered to encompass the following for M&R:

• Civil Service
• Commercial and non-commercial State Bodies
• State-owned financial institutions
• The Defence Forces
• An Garda Síochána
• Health Service Executive and Voluntary Hospitals
• Local and Regional Authorities
• Schools, Education & Training Boards (ETBs) and centres for education
• Universities and colleges
• Other organisations, including charities in receipt of 75% or more of their funding from the public sector

Why M&R

The Monitoring and Reporting (M&R) system offers several benefits to your organisation:

• Enables your organisation to fulfil your legal obligations with respect to reporting
• Provides a summary of your organisation’s overall energy performance
• Access to your organisation’s electricity and natural gas consumption data for recent years
• Allows comparison with the progress of other public bodies in achieving targets
• Showcases your achievements

It also helps organisations understand their energy consumption, target areas for improvement, identify opportunities, review progress, monitor and benchmark performance and validate savings.

How M&R works

Each public sector organisation is required to report the following data through the M&R system:

• Annual energy consumption for all energy types.
• Annual value that quantifies the level of activity undertaken by the organisation each year. This is referred to as the activity metric.
• Details of energy saving projects implemented and planned.
• Summary of the approach adopted for reviewing the organisation's energy management programme.

Reporting for 2020

The reporting cycle is now open. Key cycle dates are as follows: 

What SEAI publishes

SEAI reserves the right to publish all of the organisation-level data listed in paragraph 5 of the M&R terms & conditions. SEAI currently publishes data from the M&R system in two ways.

Annual report on energy consumption in the public sector

This report presents aggregated data on public sector energy consumption and performance, as well as case studies highlighting exemplary performance. It also lists the energy savings since baseline (%) for all organisations that have submitted a complete report to SEAI.

Data on individual public bodies

SEAI also publishes detailed organisation-level energy consumption and performance data, and a database of energy-saving projects.

Supports available

We offer a range of supports including free training workshops, step-by-step videos and guides to help you complete your M&R report.