Inspirational Sustainable Energy Community
What have you achieved to date as a Sustainable Energy Community? We want to hear your story and showcase your community.
About the Award
This award is for members of the SEAI Sustainable Energy Communities (SEC) Network. It recognises the inspirational efforts of teams behind an SEC that go beyond the norm through a combination of ambition, passion and commitment.
The judges will be looking for the following
- Initiative
How is the community effort organised? Team / committee structure, charter or mission statement, strategic vision, clarity of purpose, alignment to the principles of network membership (need to specify)
- Influence
To what degree is the community actually engaged in the energy transition? Scale of volunteerism for the cause? How has this been achieved? How has the team mobilised and motivated others?
- Impact
What has the community achieved specifically since January 2020
- Innovation
What particular aspects of your community approach, activities and achievements are innovative?
Who should apply
Applications are welcome from all of SEAI's Sustainable Energy Community (SEC) Network.
Previous Energy Award finalists under this category include:
- Sligo SEC
- Youghal Green and Blue SEC
- The Triple SEC - Connecting Cabra, Phibsboro village and Cosybatter,
- Connacht GAA SEC
- Glinsk SEC
We are all absolutely delighted on behalf of Inishowen SEC to win this community award. It's great for everybody that's been involved over the long number of years in getting to this point, and we really look forward to pushing things forward and this will give us a real shot in the arm to do so.
Application guidelines
- Please submit your application online by 5pm Thursday 17th July, 2025.
- You are eligible to apply under more than one category that you feel you fall under. Simply follow the online guidelines and copy and paste your application to a new category and amend your answers as appropriate.
- Please ensure all mandatory fields are completed before you hit submit.
- Please complete the 'Data' section to the best of your ability.
- Once you submit, you can still edit your application up to the deadline date.
- Please keep attachments to 5MB or less.
- Shortlisted applications for video production and SEAI Energy Awards will be announced in July.
- The SEAI Energy Awards will take place in November.