Energy Show 2022 - Information Session for Contractors on SEAI’s new grants rollout
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Energy Show 2022 - Information Session for Contractors on SEAI’s new grants rollout
- 2. Information Session for Contractors on SEAI’s new grant roll out Stephen Farrell : National Home Retrofit Email: Stephen.Farrell@seai.ie Ph 01 8082117
- 3. Individual Energy Grants Climate Action Plan – Target 3 www.seai.ie Demand Generation Grant options – 3 Strands One Stop Shop Service - Design, incentives… Home Energy Assessment + Upgrades
- 8. National Home Energy Scheme Commoditised Grants • Fixed Grant amount of circa 46% – 51% for eligible measures (varies slightly by home type) Home Energy Assessment (HEA) • Providing Home Energy Assessment (HEA) grant separately, giving advice to all participants, and providing a pathway to B2 and beyond Streamlined Delivery • New delivery model through SEAI registered One Stop Shops, providing a simple and easier consumer journey – ‘end to end’ & ‘hassle free’ Support supply chain delivery • Rationale to build supply chain and generate demand amongst homeowners
- 9. • Long term policy certainty EU & National (Climate Action Plan 2021, NDP 2021, EU Renovation Wave) • Long term financial certainty -– multi annual grants, and clarity out to the end of the decade • Retrofit will impact on every community in every county, it is a national enterprise not only focused on larger towns and cities - positive for rural economy • Considerable interest from wider construction sector – Retrofitting is a stable long term opportunity • SEAI have linked to ETBs and are working with contractors to develop the labour supply chain One Stop Shop (Contractor) Considerations
- 10. What is a One Stop Shop ? • A One Stop Shop will manage your home energy upgrade from start to finish. • They will provide all the contractors and specialists to guide you from initial home assessment and design through to project completion. • They will identify the best solutions for your home, give you a quote on works • They will organise and manage works completion, present you with finance options, apply for the grants on your behalf and discount all available grant supports from the overall upgrade cost invoiced to you.
- 11. One Stop Shop process • Step 1 – Home owner contacts a Registered One Stop Shop. They will ask some basic questions to determine if your home is suitable for an energy upgrade and tell you what supports are available. • Step 2 - Once you decide to continue the One Stop Shop will conduct a detailed onsite review of your home with a Home Energy Assessment (HEA) This means an energy expert will visit your home and complete a full technical assessment, and provide quotes. • Step 3 - If you are happy with the options and quote provided by your One Stop Shop, then you can start your Home Energy Upgrade (HEU) and sign a contract with your OSS. You will have peace of mind knowing all works will be organised, managed and completed to the required standards and technical specifications.
- 12. A HEA must include the following (at minimum) for grant eligibility. All completed post HEA grant offer. 1. BER assessment, with Published BER 2. Homeowner stated required outcome (objective) 3. Technical Design and Pathway options to reach BER B2 4. Technical design to meet the Heat Loss Indicator (“HLI”) requirements and for a Heat Pump 5. Quotation for the recommended energy upgrade works required to reach BER B2; clearly stating the cost of each of the recommended works, contribution from energy supplier (EEOS), if applicable, any discounts and SEAI grant. 6. Estimate of annual energy usage in kWh 7. OSS issues HEA report to the homeowner & SEAI. Results of the assessment as well as the design elements must be explained to the homeowner. One Stop Shop Service – Home Energy Assessment:
- 13. One Stop Shop Grant Amounts – Private Homes Private Homes Measures * note all measures have a minimum specification Detached Semi-Detached/ End Terrace Mid Terrace Apartment Heat Pump-Air to Water €6,500 €4,500 Central Heating System for a Heat Pump €2,000 €1,000 Heat Pump -Air to Air €3,500 Heating controls only €700 Ceiling Insulation €1,500 €1,300 €1,200 €800 Rafter Insulation €3,000 €3,000 €2,000 €1,500 Cavity Wall Insulation €1,700 €1,200 €800 €700 External Wall Insulation €8,000 €6,000 €3,500 €3,000 Internal Dry Lining Insulation €4,500 €3,500 €2,000 €1,500 Windows €4,000 €3,000 €1,800 €1,500 External Doors (max 2) €800 per door Floor Insulation €3,500 Solar Hot Water €1,200 Solar PV 0 to 2kWp €900/kWp 2 to 4kWp €300/kWp Mechanical Ventilation €1,500 Air tightness €1,000 Home Energy Assessment €350 Project Management €2,000 €1,600 €1,200 €800 OSS Scheme launch bonus for B2 with a Heat Pump €2,000 13 www.seai.ie
- 14. One Stop Shop Service – Home Energy Upgrade: 14 www.seai.ie MPRN links to NAS and ECMS. BER less than 12 months old 12 months to complete works
- 15. • Detailed analysis to get best assessment of where costs are really at now. Research & Analysis to Inform Grant Levels 15 www.seai.ie NHR (OSS) 2021 BEH Cost Data from 2010 to 2020 CEG (BEC) 2020 Assessment of Cost in market QS 1 June 2021 QS 2 Oct 2021 Scheme & EEOS Uptake Consumer Choice Modelling Targets & the Ask SEAI Experience 35% & 50% Grant Proposal Focus Groups OSS Consultation
- 16. 16 www.seai.ie
- 17. Individual Energy Upgrades (Better Energy Homes including Solar PV) Focused on ‘can pay’ homeowners who can’t do a deep retrofit but not eligible for free upgrades – on the B2 pathway 17 www.seai.ie
- 18. • Changes to Individual Energy Upgrades (Better Energy Homes) programme announced by government on 8th February 2022 • Encourage uptake of home energy upgrades in line with Climate Action Plan 2021 targets • Greater accessibility of grant funding to homeowners • Alignment of grant amounts & eligibility criteria across SEAI programmes Background to the changes:
- 19. • Grant amount increases • Eligibility criteria – year of construction • Changes to dwelling types • Solar PV Changes Summary of Changes:
- 20. Grant Amount Changes: 20 www.seai.ie Old Grants Measure Detached Semi Detached/End of Terrace Mid Terrace Apartment Roof Insulation €400 €400 €400 €400 Cavity Insulation €400 €400 €400 €400 Dry-lining €2,400 €2,200 €1,600 €1,600 External Insulation €6,000 €4,500 €2,750 €2,750 Heating Controls €700 Heat Pump Systems €3,500 Heat Pumps Air to Air €600 Solar Hot Water €1,200 Solar PV 0 to 2kWp €900/kWp 2 to 4kWp €300/kWp (with Battery) BER €50 Technical Assessment €200 New Grants Measure Detached Semi Detached/End of Terrace Mid Terrace Apartment Roof Insulation €1,500 €1,300 €1,200 €800 Cavity Insulation €1,700 €1,200 €800 €700 Dry-lining €4,500 €3,500 €2,000 €1,500 External Insulation €8,000 €6,000 €3,500 €3,000 Heating Controls €700 Heat Pump Systems €6,500 €4,500 Heat Pumps Air to Air €3,500 Solar Hot Water €1,200 Solar PV 0 to 2kWp €900/kWp 2 to 4kWp €300/kWp BER €50 Technical Assessment €200 • 80% grant aid for roof & cavity insulation • Increases to dry-lining and external wall insulation • Increases to heat pump system grants • No change to heating controls, BER, technical assessment or solar hot water grant values
- 21. Year of Construction: 21 www.seai.ie Old Rule: pre 2006 pre 2011 • Under the programme, grants are available to homes built and occupied prior to 2021 • Eligibility depends on the measure installed: New Rule: Insulation & Heating Controls Old Rule: pre 2011 pre 2021 New Rule: Heat Pump Systems & Solar (Hot Water & PV)
- 22. Dwelling Type Changes: 22 www.seai.ie • Dwelling types have been amended to align with other SEAI programmes Dwelling Type Changes Old Archetype Detached Semi-Detached House End of Terrace House Mid-Terrace House Ground Floor Apartment Mid-Floor Apartment Top-Floor Apartment New Archetype Detached Semi-detached house/End of Terrace Mid-Terrace Apartment
- 23. • Introduction of the Microgeneration Support Scheme announced by government on 20th December 2021 • Allows payments to micro-generators for exported electricity for the first time • Available to both new and existing micro-generators • Includes changes to eligibility criteria, removal of one measure & change in grant amount. • SEAI system live as of 16th February 2022 and accepting application under the new terms • Will encourage uptake of home energy upgrades in line with Climate Action Plan 2021 targets Solar PV Changes - Background:
- 24. • Removal of minimum C3 BER (though the post works BER requirement remains) • Homes built pre-2021 are now eligible (built & occupied pre 31st Dec 2020) • Battery no longer supported • Grant of up to 4kW (€2,400) now available to all, subject to usual criteria being met. Note: • Homeowners must contact their energy provider for information related to the Clean Export Guarantee (CEG) or tariff • Homeowners can continue to contact SEAI for information related to grants and grant applications What has changed:
- 25. Free energy upgrades for eligible homeowners who are at risk of energy poverty. Since 2000, over 143,000 free upgrades have been supported by the scheme. A significant increase in the number of free energy upgrades per year (400 per month) • Target the worst performing properties, by prioritising pre 1993 homes with pre BER E,F or G. • Open the scheme to ‘revisits’ – subject to criteria above • Eligibility criteria extended to include those in receipt of the Disability Allowance for over 6 months and have a child under 7 years. Warmer Homes Scheme – Free Energy Upgrade
- 26. Thank you for listening Questions Email address: Stephen.Farrell@seai.ie ph: 01 8082117 One Stop Shop email: onestopshop@seai.ie
Editor's Notes
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- Note to staff: Please update this slide with elements from the climate action plan that are relevant to your talk and your audience. Published in 2021 Roadmap for halving emissions by 2030 and reaching net-zero by 2050 By 2030, National Retrofit Plan aims to: retrofit 500,000 homes to B2 or better install 400,000 heat pumps in existing buildings Benefits include: Better quality living environments Improvements in health & wellbeing Reduction in fuel poverty Emissions reductions & increased energy efficiency
- From the outset, 2 key factors or objectives that needed to be addressed were to drive demand (get the public interested, asking questions, and remove barriers to retrofit. To use a simple visual metaphor to emphasise the importance of simultaneously driving demand while removing barriers to encourage homeowners to install EE measures. Imagine we want to roll the ball into the cylinder (convert consumer’s intentions to retrofit into action). If we remove all the barriers like complex forms, a lack of knowledge, and upfront costs, but don’t increase people’s motivations (energy savings, having a comfy home) upwards, then the ball still won’t move. Similarly, if we increase people’s motivations but don’t remove the barriers, the ball will get stuck on the barriers, and people won’t successfully install energy upgrades. Complex form – repeated applications, workbooks, heavy administration task to simple OSS portal where is register once Lack of knowledge – educating homeowners on the benefits, developed a grant support HEA – comprehensive guide to complete the works, end to end support by one contact for all matters and simplifying our scheme. WHS, BEH, CEG – Affordability - significant upfront cost removed. Cost net grant.
- Lack of knowledge So simplifying the entire process What the homeowner should see when they go onto the website and what should be sold to the homeowner. Moving away from scheme name, to name homeowner’s can more easily understand. WHS, BEH, CEG, SPV, NHR,
- Private homes and approved housing body dwellings, no energy poor support – this is directed to the free energy upgrade scheme. OSS Registered and Regulated to give confidence market. They have pass a registration process to designed to step the OSS on the way to professionalising the industry, ensuring we have companies in place that have the necessary structures and finance to grow their B2 retrofitting business and offer all the services required under the OSS offering. We are registering providers to management 30k contracts for homeowners and manage are % of the monies allocated by Gov so we are looking for orgs that are serious about doing things correctly and structuring their businesses to ensure they have adequate oversight and continuous improvements as a priority. Can continuously upgrade homes across years with no stop-start dates. Gone is the stop start nature of contract April – Oct. stifled growth – no continuity. Customer Centric approach. Key prog offers B2 grants for single unit homes Grants are tempered by home type Simplified and streamlined process, all ran through the OSS portal, automatic verification check with NAS and BER system and then instant contract. Contract for 30k in hand one automatic checks are passed. Incentives – gives confidence to the market. Know they are get X amount in grants. No confusion or going back with adjusted estimates.
- No Caps
- Starting from the announcement on the 8th of Feb – and our efforts to prime the market during the NHR development call. Very similar to benefitis from remote working, igniting life into rural towns, retrofitting requirement will add to this, upgrades are required all around the country. This isn’t only for big towns and cities around the country. It will drive employment opportunities all around the country. Commitment from all of government – 8bn allocated for the retrofit of 500,000 homes. Given business confidence to steer their business towards retrofitting and diversify fully over or across new build/ retrofit. Also Links to Enterprise Ireland and Local Enteprise Offices (LEO’s) - all part of the solution Alignment between programmes OSS – BEH – CEG Scalability Incentivise Heat Pumps and External Wall Insulation Delivery, achieve B2 - 100kWh uplift Annual review of scheme and costs Agility, responding to market situation Incorporate low-cost financing Affordability
- We have 3 providers over the line – conscious about putting up a register Managing the process via website, SEAI call centre, voice messages. Pent up demand, long game get the right people on the register. 8bn monies – exchequer funding – getting the right people on board -professional organisation with the defined structures and processes
- so that an informed decision can be made in relation to what, if any, energy upgrade works the homeowner wishes to undertake. Home Energy Assessment [HEA] To get the 350 grant all the these items need to be complete after your LoO A HEA is not required, however it is recommended HEA grant offer is open for 12 months (offer to payment request) HEA is portable – facilitate applicant
- Another table for Approved Housing Bodies on the website. All familiar with these incentives now. List of measures down the LHS – archetypes across the top HP – GSHP Incl Flat Roof insulation Launch bonus – immediately balancing out the equation with a FF boiler. PM for all upgrades. No cap, what the table amounts to, 30-35k taken off upfront.
- On the 8th of February, in tandem with the launch of the OSS programme, the government announced changes to the Individual Energy Upgrades grants scheme a.k.a. Better Energy Homes programme incl. Solar PV. The purpose of the changes was to ensure that the grant amounts available under both OSS and on an individual basis were aligned, as was the eligibility criteria around year of construction. This means that homeowners who do not wish to undertake a deep retrofit of their property can still avail of a similar level of funding on the IEU programme, albeit on a measure-by-measure basis. The grant changes were made to promote home energy upgrades in line with the Climate Action Plan. The CAP has set a target of upgrading 500,000 homes to B2 or better by 2030.
- The first change, that made all the headlines, was the change to the grant amounts. Most grants saw an uplift in value, with a number of exceptions. There is also a wider variety of grants available which are dependent on the dwelling types. I will go into these in more detail in the next slide. The next major changes announced was regarding the grant eligibility and year of construction. There has also been a change to the dwelling types that can be selected at application. This was done to align with other SEAI programmes. Also since there is a wider range of grants (dependent on dwelling type) we have reduced the number to simplify the process.
- Headline item is the significant increase in grants for attic and cavity which are now set at approx. 80% of the cost of works. Greater range of grant amounts dependent on dwelling type (has always been the case for dry-lining & EWI)
- Grants are available to all privately-owned dwellings built and occupied prior to 2021 Previous rule: the cut-off point was homes pre-2011
- No change to Detached or Mid-Terrace homes. Semi-D & EOT are now under one house archetype. Apartments have been simplified into one archetype. These are the archetypes selected by homeowners when they submit their application. These changes have no impact on the post-works BER so are for your information only.
- On the 20th of December 2021, the government announced the launch of the Microgeneration Support Scheme (MSS) which means that domestic applicants will be eligible to receive a Clean Export Guarantee (CEG) tariff, for any exported electricity generated from renewable sources. This tariff will be paid at a ‘competitive market rate’ from their electricity supplier. The introduction of the MSS included four key changes to current Solar PV grant which are outlined in the next slide. The CEG will be available to both new and existing micro-generators, subject to the eligibility criteria and Homeowners will need to contact their electricity provider for information related to the CEG. SEAI are currently accepting applications under the new terms.
- The introduction of the MSS included four key changes to current Solar PV grant: Removal of the minimum C3 BER (though the post works BER requirement still remains) Change in the year of construction requirement from pre 2011 to pre 2021 (the cut off is homes built & occupied by Dec 31st December, 2020) Removal of the battery grant support Max grant of €2,400 available to all, subject to the usual criteria being met. Homeowners can apply as usual through the SEAI.