SEAI (Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland) is Ireland's national energy authority. They provide a number of 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.
Lawler Sustainability works as a direct link between our clients and the SEAI in managing the grant process.
We have continuously secured multi-million grant supports for our clients and will confidently recommend grants suitable to your needs and objectives.
Such solutions include:
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.
Lawler Sustainability is helping businesses in all sectors, on any scale, to become EXEED certified.
Better Energy 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:
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.
Lawler Sustainability helped to secure 30% SEAI grant funding for the flagship Muebles store in Kilkenny, Ireland. We then embarked on a retail energy saving project involving a full LED lighting system upgrade resulted in annual energy savings of approximately €20,000.
As part of the project, Lawler Sustainability undertook an initial lighting survey, as well as an energy and financial assessment, before completing a full lighting redesign.
