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.
Access M&R for public bodies
Access M&R2025 reporting deadline & key dates
The key cycle dates for 2025 are as follows (note these could be subject to change as the year progresses):
| Key cycle stage | Date |
|---|---|
| M&R 2030 system open for data entry | 16 December 2024 |
| Meter data deadline | 31 January 2025 |
| Provisional scorecard available | 11 April 2025 |
| Final deadline | 16 May 2025 |
| Notification of DVAs | 6 June 2025 |
| Post-DVA deadline | 29 August 2025 |
| Final scorecard available | 29 August 2025 |
| Annual Report 2025 on Public Sector Energy Efficiency Performance | Q1 2026 |
Supports
We offer a range of supports including free training workshops and guides to help you complete your M&R report.
M&R help wiki
We have prepared a wiki help site to help public bodies with all aspects of using the M&R system, including software tips, glossary, data input, methodology and targets. You can also find your Public Sector Organisation ID on the help site. Users can access the help wiki at any stage during their reporting by clicking a '?' icon within the M&R system.
Access help Wiki Find your PSO IDM&R Helpdesk
The M&R Helpdesk provides frontline email and telephone support to public bodies and schools from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Email: [email protected]
Call: 01 808 2012
Briefing on M&R for 2026
We will hold a general briefing for public bodies to outline the M&R reporting cycle in 2026. Please keep an eye on https://energylink.seai.ie for details.
M&R System Training
SEAI run a series of training sessions for new users in January each year. We provide half day training sessions covering methodology and system for new users or a shorter 1.5 hour refresher training for people who have been involved in M&R reporting before but feel they need a brief recap of how to complete each section. Please keep an eye on https://energylink.seai.ie for details of M&R training.
M&R2030 System Training Tutorials
Our trainers have recorded a series of training videos to help users complete their M&R report at any stage throughout the cycle. Each video covers the key methodology points and demonstrates how to complete each of the main sections. See description & links to tutorials below:
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