What public bodies should report

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
• Provices 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.

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 baseline period onwards.
• In general, if better data becomes available, you can change values that 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.