- Reduce Energy Consumption & Costs by up to 50% While Reducing CO2 Emissions
- Enhance Reputation among Customers & Stakeholders through CSR Efforts
- Increase Profitability of Business while Future-Proofing Assets
Grants & Financing Consultancy
The financial investment that can be required when addressing energy efficiency, sustainability & ESG matters, can be a significant barrier for businesses wishing to begin the process. As sustainability engineers and consultants, we are familiar with the large range of grant supports that are available on the market, in order to bridge this gap and make energy upgrades more accessible for organisations.
SEAI (Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland) is Ireland’s national energy authority. They provide several grants and supports to help businesses to reduce their energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions. Lawler Sustainability has more SEAI approved Sustainability Experts than most and have an outstanding relationship with the SEAI and were first to use the EXEED grant process on the SEAI’s own offices. Enterprise Ireland also offer a wide range of grant supports to enable businesses to begin their transition to a more sustainable future.
Our team work as a direct link between our clients and these organisations in managing the grant process, to ensure compliance with stringent grant criteria and enable financing to be awarded.
SEAI Grants Currently Available
Lawler Sustainability have continuously secured multi-million grant supports for our clients and will confidently recommend grants suitable to your needs and objectives.
Such solutions include:
- Excellence in Energy Efficiency Design (EXEED)
- Business Energy Upgrades Scheme (BEUS)
- Better Energy Communities (BEC)
- Accelerated Capital Allowances (ACA)
- Energy Efficiency Support Scheme
- Energy Contracting Support Scheme
- Support Scheme for Renewable Heat (SSRH)
Excellence In Energy Efficiency Design (EXEED)
EXEED is an exciting new energy funding solution that is incentivising, facilitating, and rewarding energy-efficient businesses for doing what is right for their environment and community.
This programme allows businesses to establish a systematic approach to energy-efficient design, construction, and commissioning processes for new building ventures or updates to existing buildings.
The programme was set up to influence the next generation of building service engineers and how they model/build these buildings in the hope of developing more sustainable and future-proof buildings.
Our team recently secured grant funding of nearly €400k through the EXEED programme for a multinational retail client, to enable energy upgrades to their landmark retail store, which will drastically improve energy efficiency and enable significant carbon emission reductions.
Lawler Sustainability is helping businesses in all sectors, on any scale, to become EXEED certified.
Up to €3 million per project. For more information on the programme please click the button below.
Business Energy Upgrades Scheme (BEUS)
BEUS is a government funded support scheme introduced to provide a range of supports to assist the business, agricultural, public body, or non-profit sector to introduce energy efficient and renewable measures into their buildings. Up to 30% of the invoiced cost.
Better Energy Communities (BEC)
Better Energy Communities is Ireland’s national retrofit initiative aimed at upgrading building stock and facilities to high standards of energy efficiency and renewable energy usage, thereby reducing fossil fuel usage, energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions. Our team, at Lawler Sustainability, have years of experience in applying for and obtaining funding through this SEAI grant scheme.
The BEC programme supports new approaches to achieving high-quality improvements in energy efficiency within Irish communities.
By bringing together groups of buildings under the same retrofit programme, BEC projects facilitate community-wide energy improvements more efficiently and cost-effectively than might otherwise be possible.
The programme focuses on improving the energy efficiency of Ireland’s building stock and supporting the use of renewable energy through:
- Delivering a cost-effective approach to boosting the energy efficiency of low-income houses in mixed-ownership estates
- Demonstrating sustainable financing mechanisms to fund retrofits and harness project savings
- Creating innovative partnership approaches that facilitate community access to existing local resources, thereby boosting and sustaining the impact of BEC support
- Stimulating employment through sustainable energy upgrading projects
- Supporting small-scale renewable energy projects
- Domestic Deep retrofit upgrade
30% of capital costs, which may increase up to 50% upon SEAI approval.
Accelerated Capital Allowances (ACA)
The Accelerated Capital Allowance (ACA) is a tax incentive scheme that promotes investment in energy-efficient products & equipment. The ACA is based on the long-standing ‘Wear and Tear Allowance’ for investment in capital plant and machinery, whereby capital depreciation can be compensated through a reduction in an organisation’s tax liability.
The ACA scheme allows a sole trader, farmer, or company that pays corporation tax in Ireland to deduct the full cost of the equipment from their profits in the year of purchase. As a result, the reduction in tax paid by the organisation in that year is currently 12.5% of the value of capital expenditure.
By contrast, the Wear and Tear Allowance provides the same tax reduction, but this is spread evenly over an eight-year period. Under the Energy Efficiency Obligation Scheme, energy suppliers must support energy efficiency projects in businesses and homes across Ireland.
Energy credits are available from utility energy suppliers for every kWh of energy saved.
Companies that sell large amounts of energy are known as obligated parties and they have targets under the scheme. Obligated parties offer supports to make your home or business more energy-efficient. For every unit of energy saved through these projects, they achieve energy credits towards their targets. This will help Ireland to reach national and European energy-saving targets.
You can therefore deduct 100% of the cost of qualifying energy-efficient equipment in the year of purchase.
Energy Efficiency Support Scheme
Financial aid for businesses investing in energy efficiency upgrades to reduce operational costs and carbon emissions. around 30% of eligible capital costs for energy efficiency upgrades.
Energy Contracting Support Scheme
Assistance for companies entering Energy Performance Contracts (EPCs) to achieve guaranteed energy savings. Up to 75% of eligible costs, with maximum limits of €50,000 for EPCs/Local Energy Supply Contracts and €25,000 for Energy Performance Guarantees.
Support Scheme for Renewable Heat (SSRH)
Funding for renewable heating systems, such as biomass and heat pumps, to replace fossil fuel heating. Provides 30% capital support for eligible expenditure on renewable heating systems, such as heat pumps.
