Demand for energy grants is high, reports the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), but a survey suggests only one in five plan to upgrade their Building Energy Rating (BER).
Data shared by the SEAI with Selfbuild shows individual grant applications rose from 1,344 in January 2022 to 3,418 in February 2022 and 3,234 in March 2022.
The ROI government announced it would substantially increase grant amounts for home energy upgrades in February 2022.
But, despite those recent increases in grant incentives, more than half (54 per cent) of homeowners in ROI are not planning to undertake an energy upgrade, while 18 per cent are planning to invest in a project to improve their home’s BER.
That’s according to research carried out by the An Post Green Hub in partnership with iReach in March 2022.