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Business & Industry

Top Five Reasons to Attend the SEAI Energy Show

  • Kim Buckley
  • 2 Min

The Energy Show is a must visit for businesses and organisations interested in saving energy or switching to clean energy solutions.

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Energy Statistics
Featured

Stat Chat: A new first look at Ireland's Energy Supply

  • Dr. Emily Byrne
  • 5 Min

A new report from SEAI helps illustrate key details of Ireland's energy supply in 2023 and the security of that supply.

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Home Energy Upgrades

How we became the proud owners of a heat pump

  • Tom Halpin
  • 8 Min

Tom, from SEAI, shares his reasons for switching over to a heat pump in his home.

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Climate Action
Featured
Home Energy Upgrades

The value of a home energy upgrade

  • Dr. Ciaran Byrne
  • 8 Min

Interested in learning more about the 'value' of a home retrofit and why it should outweigh the cost, especially when it comes to the lifetime benefits you can expect.

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Electric Vehicles
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A Year Driving Electric

  • Fergus Sharkey
  • 10 Min

Thinking of purchasing an EV? Hear from Fergus, who bought his first EV in 2023. Get an honest, practical and balanced view of what it's like to make the switch and drive an EV as the family car for last 12 months.

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Business & Industry
Featured

Energy Efficient Design - why do we need it?

  • Jason Doherty
  • 5 Min

Everyone knows that large businesses need to be more carbon efficient, but the question is, how? And what's the best approach?

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Electric Vehicles
Featured

Fuel Price Comparison

  • Shane Prendergast
  • 5 Min

Let's set the record straight on the new Fuel Price Comparison posters displayed now at fuelling stations nationwide.

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Climate Action
Featured

Margie McCarthy's Five Degrees of Change

  • Daniel Murray
  • 6 Min

Margie McCarthy, the Director of Research and Policy Insights at the SEAI, explains the changes she would make for a greener world.

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Business & Industry
Featured

Five things to do at the SEAI Energy Show

  • Orla Grant
  • 4 Min

Ireland's leading B2B sustainable energy event is happening soon and you won't want to miss it.

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Business & Industry
Featured

Improving the Triple E Register

  • Matthew Griffiths
  • 4 Min

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) is implementing changes to the Triple E Register to improve the experience for vendors and purchasers alike.

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    Climate Action

    Living within carbon budgets

    • William Walsh
    • 4 Min

    Upcoming carbon budgets are going to change the game when it comes to eliminating fossil fuels from our energy system, explains SEAI Chief Executive William Walsh.

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    Climate Action
    Communities

    Upgrades for Clondalkin community centre

    • Orla Grant
    • 4 Min

    Kilcronan Court and Place Community Centre, based in Clondalkin, Dublin, were awarded funding of almost €23,000 under the 2020 Community Energy Grant Scheme.

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    Climate Action

    Why I switched to an EV

    • Orla Grant
    • 3 Min

    Jan-Bart is from Holland, has lived in Ireland for 18 years and has been driving an electric vehicle (EV) for six years.

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    Business & Industry
    Climate Action
    Renewable Technologies

    Why Green Hotels are here to stay

    • Orla Grant
    • 5 Min

    Hotel Doolin, Ireland's only carbon neutral certified hotel, is located in west Clare's Doolin.

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    Climate Action
    Communities

    Jessica Kelly, the Emerging Sustainable Energy Champion award winner

    • Orla Grant
    • 4 Min

    Jessica Kelly, a fifth-year student in Loreto Abbey Dalkey, is this year's SEAI Emerging Sustainable Energy Champion award winner.

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    Climate Action

    What Climate SOS can teach our children

    • Aoife Cannon
    • 2 Min

    Climate SOS is an adventure storybook that follows four kids and a dog, Sparkie, who are focussed on exploring sustainable energy and protecting the environment.

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    Climate Action

    What's missing on climate action?

    • Jim Scheer
    • 7 Min

    The disciplines of engineering and economics have enabled us to create astonishing materials and machines, and to use them to improve our everyday lives.

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    Business & Industry
    Climate Action
    Energy Research
    Energy Statistics

    Challenges and opportunities for energy security

    • Denis Dineen
    • 2 Min

    Secure supplies of energy are essential for our economy and
    maintaining safe and comfortable living conditions.

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    Climate Action
    Home Energy Upgrades

    Ireland's housing retrofit imperative

    • Jim Scheer
    • 7 Min

    Upgrading Ireland's housing stock to minimise the greenhouse
    gas emissions from heating, lighting and appliance use is a
    national priority.

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    Climate Action
    Communities

    Teaching Children about energy

    • Emer Barry
    • 4 Min

    We have created some fun and easy experiments to try at home with your children, to make learning about energy exciting and memorable for them.

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    Climate Action

    How to get your home to a BER B2, or better

    • Nóirín Byrne
    • 2 Min

    By improving the energy efficiency of your home, you can lower
    your energy bills, make your house warmer and more comfortable
    while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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    Climate Action

    Women Blazing a Trail in the Irish Energy Sector: Aine Macken

    • Nóirín Byrne
    • 5 Min

    Today and every day, we celebrate women in energy at the cutting edge of Ireland's clean energy transition

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    Climate Action
    Energy Research

    Generation Renewable: decarbonising our national electricity & gas grids

    • Dr. Phil Hemmingway
    • 3 Min

    Major targets called out in Climate Action Plan include achieving 70% renewables on the electricity grid by 2030

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    Climate Action
    Business & Industry
    Communities

    Time for giant steps

    • Tom Halpin
    • 4 Min

    Tom Halpin writes that now is the time to take giant steps in our sustainable energy journey

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    Climate Action

    Solar PV Review

    • Caoilin Rafferty
    • 3 Min

    Meet early adaptor Keith who has been driving electric cars since
    2011 and has also installed Solar PV.

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    Communities
    Climate Action

    Victory Luke address to IEA Global Conference

    • Victory Luke
    • 6 Min

    In June 2019, a fifteen year old student, Victory Luke, addressed
    the global IEA Conference on Energy Efficiency in the Mansion
    House, Dublin.

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