Introduction to M&R

Introduction to M&R-2030

All public bodies and schools must report their energy and related data to SEAI annually. The legal basis for this reporting is Regulation 5(3) in SI 426 of 2014. SEAI first developed an online Monitoring and Reporting (M&R) system in 2013 for public bodies and schools to report their energy and track their performance towards the 2020 targets. The results are published each year in SEAI's Annual Report on Public Sector Energy Performance.

The new M&R-2030 system has now replaced the M&R-2020 reporting system.

M&R-2030 is being released in several phases throughout 2024. The first release went live on 30th January and the deadline for completing this section was 5th July 2024. The majority of functionality in phase 1 related to reporting of energy consumption, activity metrics and energy performance and was broadly similar to what was tracked in the old system.

The second key release went live on 26th August. This contains additional functionality for tracking energy-saving projects, business travel, building register, vehicle inventory and vehicle procurement (for tracking compliance with the Clean Vehicle Directive (CVD)). The deadline for completing this second phase of M&R is 15th November 2024. This release applies only to public bodies (not schools).

A third smaller release went live on 9th October. This provides functionality for applicable public bodies to report on the organisation's progress on implementing the Climate Action Mandate. The deadline for completing and submitting your Statement on compliance with the Climate Action Mandate is 6th December 2024. This release applies to all public bodies, except local authorities, commercial semi-state bodies and the school sector.

Note: Data reported via the old system, business travel spreadsheets and the pilot building register has been migrated into the new system.

Public body scorecards, charts, Gap to Target tool and reports will be released throughout 2024.

Achieving our National Targets

Under the Climate Action Plan 2021 and 2023, the government set ambitious targets for public bodies, (including schools) to achieve a 51% reduction in energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and a 50% improvement in energy efficiency by 2030. The M&R system enables reporting and tracking against these targets and other legal requirements.

Why M&R

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
• 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, target areas for improvement, identify opportunities, review progress, monitor and benchmark performance and validate savings.

What SEAI publishes

SEAI reserves the right to publish organisation-level data in accordance with paragraph 4 of the terms & conditions. SEAI currently publishes data from the M&R system in two ways.

Annual report on energy consumption in the public sector

This report presents aggregated data on public sector energy consumption and performance, as well as case studies highlighting exemplary performance. It also lists the energy savings since baseline (%) for all organisations that have submitted a complete report to SEAI.

Data on individual public bodies

SEAI also publishes detailed organisation-level energy consumption and performance data, and a database of energy-saving projects.