The fund accelerates and enhances support for sustainable energy research, development and demonstration in Ireland.

RD&D programme

The programme aims to build capacity across our industrial enterprise and research communities. It does this by supporting feasibility studies, related R&D and shared cost demonstration activities.

RD&D programme objectives

  • Accelerate the development and deployment in the Irish marketplace of competitive products, processes and systems
  • Support solutions that enable technical and other barriers to market uptake to be overcome
  • Grow Ireland's national capacity to access, develop and apply international class RD&D
  • Provide guidance and support to policy makers and public bodies through results, outcomes and learning from supported projects

The programme supports innovative and targeted actions in RD&D to assist in the delivery of the following.

RD&D annual call

The 2017 annual for the RD&D Programme is now closed. This year we sought energy research, development and demonstration projects covering the following topics:

  • Renewable Electricity and Micro Generation (for all renewables)
  • Distributed/ Local Decarbonisation of Energy Supply to Industry
  • Smart Grid and Energy Storage
  • Community Energy Project Models and Structures
  • Bioenergy and Renewable Heat
  • Geospatial Energy Datasets
  • Behavioural Economics/ Behaviour Change in Energy
  • Building Retrofit

Funding levels and applying

The level of funding a project receives is decided on a case by case basis. Maximum levels can be found in our application guidelines below. In addition the maximum funding level for a project depends on:

  • The category of research
  • The size of your organisation
  • Collaboration efforts

Payment Process

SEAI held a series of webinars in September to outline the payment process of SEAI's RD&D & Prototype Development Fund Programmes. Grant awardees in 2017 are encouraged to view this webinar in advance of preparing and submitting a payment request to SEAI.

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Contact us

Email energyresearch@seai.ie
Call 01 808 2008