This event will explain the steps businesses can take to reduce their energy use and save money.

1. 17th May 2022
SEAI Business Briefing:
How your SME can
save Energy and Money

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Agenda
• 2.00: Welcome and Introduction
– Dearbhla Stapleton, Business and Industry Programme Manager, SEAI
• 2.05: Climate Toolkit 4 Business
– Aisling McCarthy, Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
• 2.10: Learn how to reduce you business energy use with the SEAI Energy Academy
– Sara Norris, SME Programme Executive, SEAI
• 2.20: Discover the benefits of an energy audit and learn about the SEAI business grants
available
– Julie Farrelly, SME Programme Executive, SEAI
• 2.30: Upcoming Non Domestic PV Grant
– Eamonn Sheils, Commercial Retrofit Programme Manager, SEAI
• 2.40: Q&A

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Introduction
Savings
Lower your running costs, increase profit margins and
protect your business from volatile energy costs
Win new business
As businesses and public sector organisations
tighten their supplier requirements
Boost your reputation
Help your business grow your base of customers
whose interest in climate change has grown
hugely in recent years
Retain staff
Improve staff morale, as employees across all
sectors increasingly want to work for employers
who are climate-aware and taking action

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Climate Toolkit 4 Business
Aisling McCarthy | Climate Action and Economic Infrastructure Unit
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment

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What is the Climate Toolkit 4 Business?
• A carbon calculator tool and climate action plan
generator aimed at Irish SMEs
• Launched by Tánaiste & Minister Ryan December
2021
• Provides SMEs with practical ways to take action to
reduce emissions
• Increase resilience, remain competitive in low-carbon
economy of future
• Developed by DETE & DECC with input from state
agencies and business representative bodies

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14. Next steps
• Start your zero carbon journey at
www.climatetoolkit4business.gov.ie
• Register with theToolkit
 to track your progress reducing your footprint,
and
 to share your action plan with colleagues and
customers
• Follow our ongoing communications
campaigns
 Govt Reduce your Use campaign
• Engage with the supports offered by SEAI, LEOs,
Enterprise Ireland, IDA and others
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Sara Norris| SME Programme Executive SEAI

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Energy efficiency is using less
energy to achieve the same
• Energy efficiency first: the energy you don’t
the cheapest.
• Save up to 10% on your energy bills by
implementing no-cost and low-cost energy
efficiency measures.

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Heat
32%
Electricity
33%
Transport
35%
Energy Use

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ReduceYour Use: Heating and Cooling
 Air conditioning can double
your energy bill
 Heating costs increase by 8%
for every 1°C increase
 30% of heating costs are
preventable
 Turn off AC and open windows
 Cooling set to 24 °C
 Reduce heating by 2°C could save
€160 on a €1,000 heating bill
 Heating set to 19°C
 Seal draughts and fit spring-loaded
door closures

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ReduceYour Use: Transport
 Is the journey necessary?
What are your options?
 Aggressive driving = 12%
increase fuel consumption
 25% reduction in tyre
pressure = 1.5% increase in
fuel use
 Additional weight = more
fuel used
 Encourage teleconferencing
 Shift to public transport, cycling or
walking
 Slow down! Reduce your speed from
120 kph to 100 kph = save 25% fuel use
 Check your tyres and maintain
accurate pressure
 Empty your boot, remove unnecessary
items and roof rack

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ReduceYour Use: Appliances and Lighting
 Lighting can account for 40% of
a building's energy use
 One external flood light running
for 12 hours every night can
cost €250 a year to run
 46% of a business's electricity is
used outside of operating hours
 Get everyone involved, label switches
“Switch off”
 Maximise use of natural light through
room layout
 Consider installing lighting sensors
 Find your big energy users and check
settings and operating hours
 Switch off, use eco settings and power
saving mode

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ReduceYour Use: Energy Academy
• Free e-learning platform
• Encourage sustainable energy use behaviors
• Increases motivation and confidence to reduce energy
use in the workplace
• Join over 3,900 learners:
https://www.seai.ie/energyacademy/
• Energy andClimate Change
• Business Energy Efficiency
• Office Energy Efficiency
• Eco-Driving
• Lighting Efficiency
• Decarbonisation for Business
• Introduction to ElectricVehicles
• Introduction to Solar PV

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ReduceYour Use: Energy Academy

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• Introduction to Energy ManagementTraining: Create an Energy
Action Plan
• Takes you through the six steps to creating an energy action plan
1. Create the business case for energy management
2. Assign an energy coordinator
3. Write your energy statement
4. Track your energy consumption through bills and meter
readings
5. Identify potential areas to save energy
6. Create your energy action plan
• Check out the SEAI Eventbrite page for the next online workshop
ReduceYour Use: Create an Energy Action Plan

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Plan Your Investment
Julie Farrelly| SME Programme Executive SEAI

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How to plan?
• Complete an EnergyAudit - Support Scheme for EnergyAudits
(SSEA)
• Offers SMEs a voucher of €2,000 to get an energy audit with an
SEAI Registered EnergyAuditor.
• Open year round for applications.
• To be eligible, your company must:
• Be a Small or Medium Enterprise
• < 250 employees
• Turnover < €50M or balance sheet < €43M
• Spend at least €10,000 on energy per year
• Be tax compliant
• Find out more and apply online:
www.seai.ie/sme/energyaudits

26. SME Energy Audit trends
Sectors
• 70% of Audits are in the;
• Wholesale and Retail Trade
• Manufacturing
• Accommodation and Food Services
• Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
Top recommendations
• Solar PV
• LED lights
• Energy management, monitoring and
metering
• Refrigeration upgrades
• Renewable Heat
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Supermarket in Cavan
Energy audit key findings:
1. Energy mgmt. system #1
2. <€5k investment = €13k savings
every year
3. Solar is #2 – most saving but
large investment
4. This supermarket can
• Avail of the Communities grant for 30%
grant funding (plus potential of 10%
covered by obligated energy providers)

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Café/Restaurant in Cork
Energy audit key findings:
1. Low/ no cost actions
2. Swapping electricity to night saver #1
3. The café can fully move away from
fossil fuels and can avail of a 30%
grant on installing a Heat Pump
through SEAI’s support scheme for
Renewable Heat (SSRH)

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SEAI Grants
Julie Farrelly| SME Programme Executive SEAI

30. Support Scheme for Renewable Heat (SSRH)
For commercial, industrial, agricultural, district heating, public sector and
other non-domestic heat users that convert from fossil fuel to renewable
heat.
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Investment aid –
a grant of up to 30% of
eligible costs for;
• Air source heat pumps
• Ground source heat pumps
• Water source heat pumps
Ongoing operational aid
(through tariff payment
for eligible heat use) for;
• Biomass boilers
• Biogas boilers (AD)
• Biomass or biogas HE
CHP
• Allows you to choose the best renewable solution for your business (heat pump,
biomass or biogas)
• Open year-round for applications
• Find out more and apply online: https://www.seai.ie/business-and-public-
sector/business-grants-and-supports/support-scheme-renewable-heat/

31. SSRH Case Studies
Poultry Farm
• Family run poultry and farm in Co. Mayo that switched to
renewable heating
• Approximate cost for installation of biomass boiler
was €145,000 which eliminated fossil fuels for heating
• €23,778 annual tariff payment for 15 years
• 6.1 year payback on investment
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C.J Sheeran
• C.J Sheeran, the pallet manufacturer set out to
lower carbon emissions and energy bills by
switching to a renewable energy source
• 1,934 tonnes of CO2 saved per year
• 6.4 years payback period
• 713,967 litres of kerosene no longer being used
annually
1,9344
Tonnes of
CO2
Saved p.a
714 k
Litres of kerosene
no longer being
used annually

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Electric Vehicles for Business
• SEAI provide support of up to €3,800 towards the commercial purchase of a
Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV)
• Staff provided with the use of a fully electric vehicle can also apply to SEAI’s
home charger grant for support
• SEAI are currently tendering for the upcoming Commercial Fleet Trials.
• SEAI will cover the leasing costs of 50 EVs
• SEAI will provide a charging unit free of cost if required
• 200 participating businesses max.
• Other business supports include:
• Accelerated Capital Allowance(ACA) for electric vehicles and electric vehicle charging equipment
• Toll incentive scheme which provides savings of up to €1000 per year
• 0% BIK on first €50,000 of vehicle price
• Visit www.drivingelectric.ie to see if your business is eligible

33. Excellence in Energy Efficient Design (EXEED)
• SEAI EXEED (Excellence in Energy Efficient Design) is a
certification program that helps businesses achieve optimum
energy performance.
• It applies a standardised approach to project design and
implementation for new or upgraded buildings and processes.
• Grant support of up to €1,000,000 per project available.
• Open year-round for applications by businesses and public sector
organisations.
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Brand new buildings
and facilities
Upgrades or
re-purposing of existing
buildings and facilities
Manufacturing
processes
Who is it for?

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Find out more and apply online:
• EXEEDCertification page: www.seai.ie/business-and-public-sector/standards/exeed-certified-program/
• EXEEDGrant page: www.seai.ie/business-and-public-sector/business-grants-and-supports/exeed-certified-grant/
Stage 1 - pre-investment cost Stage 2
 Energy Efficient Design Expert
professional fees
 Technical feasibility studies
 Specialist consultancy fees for
Challenge & Analyse (Key step in
EXEED process)
 Energy Modelling
 Grants cover between 50 – 70% of
costs
 Equipment such as;
 Heat pumps,Air Handling
Units, Pumps, Biomass boilers,
boilers, Lighting, Solar
PV, Efficient machinery,
Insulation etc
 Installation costs
 Investment Professional fees
 Grant between 30-50% of costs
Excellence in Energy Efficient Design (EXEED) – Grant Support

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Community Energy Grant
Assisting energy efficiency community projects through capital
funding, partnerships, and technical support.
• Community oriented with a cross-sectoral approach, and you must show
that you can sustainably finance the proposed project
• SME’s who have completed their Energy Audit through the SSEA
receive additional scores in innovation on their application
• Suitable for projects from €50k to up to €1.5m
• Grant for Businesses are typically 30%
• If you are interested in partaking, there is a list of Project Coordinators
you can reach out to on our website
• For more information visit Grants For Sustainable Community Projects |
SEAI
• This grant is not suitable for single measure

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Energy Efficiency Obligation Scheme (EEOS)
• Under EEOS, the largest energy companies in Ireland are obligated to achieve energy
savings targets every year
• They do this by supporting energy efficiency projects in businesses and homes across the
country
• The energy companies offer financial and/or practical supports in exchange for counting the
energy savings towards their targets
• The types of projects supported include building energy upgrades, heating and cooling
system upgrades, new motors and pumps, fleet and energy management systems
• The energy companies must be able to demonstrate their involvement in the project before
works start
• For more information, visit here: https://www.seai.ie/business-and-public-sector/business-
grants-and-supports/energy-efficiency-obligation-scheme/

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SEAI Upcoming Non
Domestic PV Grant
Eamonn Sheils| Commercial Retrofit Programme Manager SEAI

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Non-Domestic Solar PV Grant

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Solar PV (Photovoltaic) Outline

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Solar PV (Photovoltaic) Outline

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Solar PV (Photovoltaic) Outline
1. Solar PV modules convert sunlight to direct current (DC) power.

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Solar PV (Photovoltaic) Outline
1. Solar PV modules convert sunlight to direct current (DC) power.
2. An inverter changes the solar DC power into alternating current (AC)
power.

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Solar PV (Photovoltaic) Outline
1. Solar PV modules convert sunlight to direct current (DC) power.
2. An inverter changes the solar DC power into alternating current (AC)
power.
3. Your business uses electricity from the solar PV modules first,
with additional demand supplied by the grid.

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Solar PV (Photovoltaic) Outline
1. Solar PV modules convert sunlight to direct current (DC) power.
2. An inverter changes the solar DC power into alternating current (AC)
power.
3. Your business uses electricity from the solar PV modules first, with
additional demand supplied by the grid.
4. A meter measures your electricity production and consumption.

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Solar PV (Photovoltaic) Outline
1. Solar PV modules convert sunlight to direct current (DC) power.
2. An inverter changes the solar DC power into alternating current (AC)
power.
3. Your business uses electricity from the solar PV modules first, with
additional demand supplied by the grid.
4. A meter measures your electricity production and consumption.
5. Excess power generated by the solar PV modules is fed into the
electricity grid.

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Solar PV (Photovoltaic) Outline
1. Solar PV modules convert sunlight to direct current (DC) power.
2. An inverter changes the solar DC power into alternating current (AC)
power.
3. Your business uses electricity from the solar PV modules first, with
additional demand supplied by the grid.
4. A meter measures your electricity production and consumption.
5. Excess power generated by the solar PV modules is fed into the
electricity grid.
Optional: Battery Storage

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Non-Domestic PV Scheme Outline
• The Minister announced on the new Micro-generation Support Scheme
(MSS) 21 December 2021.
• A grant of max.€2400 (4kWp)
• Size under scheme set at 6kWp DC. (Approx 16 Panels, 25m2)
• No BER threshold, and available to all pre-2021 buildings.
• SEAI targeting launching the scheme summer 2022 subject to Ministerial
approval.
• Separate to Domestic Scheme.
• Application process and grant offer and payment process very similar to
domestic.
• Clean Export Guarantee (CEG) tariff, for any exported electricity, at a
competitive market rate from customer electricity supplier.

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Other Renewable Electricity Supports
Domestic & Non Domestic up to 6.0kWp:
• Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)
• Grant scheme (maximum €2,400)
Non-domestic between 6.1kWp and 50kWp.
• Clean Export Premium
Small Scale Generation
• Under development
• Expected 2023
Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS)
• RESS 1 Auction Completed
• RESS 2 Auction Commenced

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Other Renewable Electricity Supports
Domestic & Non-Domestic up to 6.0kWp:
• Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)
• Grant scheme (maximum €2,400)
Non-domestic between 6.1kWp and 50kWp.
• Clean Export Premium
• Small Scale Generation
• Under development
• Expected 2023
Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS)
• RESS 1 Auction Completed
• RESS 2 Auction Commenced

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Commercial Retrofit Scheme

51. Sustainability Journey
Important to:
-Record Past Improvements (Baseline & Previous Actions)
- Present Actions (Daily Systems and Monitoring)
-Future Plans (Road Map to Final Goal)
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52. Sustainability Journey
Important to:
-Record Past Improvements (Baseline & Previous Actions)
- Present Actions (Daily Systems and Monitoring)
-Future Plans (Road Map to Final Goal)
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Continual Refinement

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54. SEAI Energy Awards 2022
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 The Awards recognise and reward excellence in all
aspects of energy efficiency and renewable energy
 The deadline for applying is Friday the 17th of June.
 Categories for Business include:
– Small and Medium Business
– Energy in Buildings
– Innovative Deployment of Renewable Energy
– Energy Team/Manager of the Year
Start your application today!
• Winners will be announced at our Gala Awards
Ceremony in October 2022.

55. Q&A
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