SEAI September Update
Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI)
Delivering Ireland's Energy Revolution.
In this edition, we share the SEAI Energy Awards 2023 finalists with you. Congratulations to this year’s cohort, who are achieving very impressive results with their energy efficiency endeavours. Another success story is that 22,000 home energy upgrades were supported by SEAI in the first half of 2023. We also share the key findings from the 2022 Final National Energy Balance.
SEAI Energy Awards 2023 - Finalists Announced
We are delighted to share the list of finalists for this year’s SEAI Energy Awards. Each finalist has demonstrated high levels of innovation with strong potential for replication. They have achieved significant energy reduction or clean energy deployment and are already winners in our eyes. But a competition is a competition and the overall winners will be announced at our Gala Awards Ceremony in November 2023. For now, take a few minutes to read a short summary of each finalist's project.
September Stat of the Month - Moving Beyond Fossil Fuels
In Ireland today we are still overly reliant on fossil fuels, most of which are imported, for our energy supply. SEAI is supporting the technologies that will use renewable electricity in heating and transport, which is sourced from renewables in Ireland such as solar and onshore/offshore wind.
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Report: 22,000 Home Energy Upgrades in first half of 2023
SEAI have published a report giving details of the 21,727 home energy upgrades supported through Government funded SEAI grant schemes in the first half of 2023. This represents a 150% increase on the same period last year, and suggests activity is on track to meet or surpass the 37,000 upgrades target for 2023.
2022 National Energy Balance
We recently published the Final Energy Balance for 2022 which shows that Ireland’s total energy demand increased by almost 5% last year. SEAI says that the increase was mostly driven by a continued rebound of transport activity post COVID. A more significant increase was avoided through a reduction in household heating demand. SEAI believes that the 12% reduction in energy demand in the residential sector is due to a combination of high energy prices, the post COVID return to office, home efficiency improvements, a switch to renewables and some weather effects.
Field Service Engineer Natural, Engineered and Sintered Stone Specialist. Owner TechnoWorld Stone Solutions
10moOn the other hand, regarding Energy storage, It's like a worldwide contest how to produce the most expensive, with the most exotic materials and processes an intricate design storage solution, when an already existing low cost solution is readily available (latent heat in phase transition). is a common material there that can store up to 500 kW/h per one metric tonne with unlimited charge/discharge cycles and with a cost of 5-6 euro per kW/h of storage. Even more, it is compatible with CSP that is way more environmentally friendly than PV, cheaper to manufacture and efficient to capture solar energy and store it for later use. What is this madness about pouring capital in Wind and PV without taking into account the environmental and capital cost of recycling them at the end of life.
Field Service Engineer Natural, Engineered and Sintered Stone Specialist. Owner TechnoWorld Stone Solutions
10moHow about continuing using fossil fuels but with literally 0 emissions? Why all this focus in removing the fossil fuels from power generation instead of looking to solutions to continue to use fossil fuels, BUT with 0 emissions? Did anyone occur that actually you can have power Thermo -Electric generation with consumption of CO2 that can offset the emissions of traditional Gas and Coal Power Plants?
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