Monitoring and reporting for Public Bodies

Why public bodies should report

All public bodies must achieve a 51% reduction in energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and a 50% improvement in energy efficiency by 2030. It is up to each individual organisation to determine how the targets can be best achieved.

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
• Provides a summary of your organisation's greenhouse gas emissions
• Provides 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 and greenhouse gas emissions, target areas for improvement, identify opportunities, review progress, monitor and benchmark performance and validate savings.

What to report

Key reporting requirements

• Annual energy consumption data for your organisation, broken down by energy type, including all thermal , transport and electricity consumption.
• Annual values for your organisation's activity levels, including the number of full-time equivalent (FTE) employees and total useful floor area (TUFA).
• Brief commentary on your organisation's energy management practices and energy performance for the year.
• Name and contact details of your organisation's CEO (or equivalent). SEAI uses these details to formally contact your CEO with performance results for your organisation.
• Details of energy-saving projects, both implemented and planned.
• Building register, including location, type and size information for all your buildings, and consumption data for larger buildings.
• A breakdown of your vehicle fleet, and details on all vehicle procurements since 2021.
• Business travel undertaken since 2021, including distance travelled by private road vehicle, details of flights taken and distance travelled by public transport(optional).
• Compliance with the most recent Climate Action Mandate (where applicable).
• Annual expenditure on energy, broken down by energy type (optional).

How to report

• You must report the data annually to SEAI, in accordance with SEAI's annual reporting cycle.
• Reporting deadlines are final and late data is not accepted by SEAI.
• You must report data for every year from the start of your organisation's energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emission baseline periods onwards.
• In general, if better data becomes available, you can change values that were reported previously in earlier reporting cycles.
• When you report data for energy efficiency, the scope of activity data reported must be the same as the scope of the energy consumption data reported.

2026 reporting deadline & key dates

The key cycle dates for 2026 are as follows (note these could be subject to change as the year progresses):

Supports

We offer a range of supports including free training workshop and guides to help you complete your M&R report.