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Co-Creating Ireland’s National

Renovation Strategy – V.2

Cloughjordan, 31st May 2016

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Pat BarryExecutive Director - IGBC

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Pat BarryExecutive Director - IGBC

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Agenda

10.30 Session 1 – Setting the Scene

11.15 Session 2 – Tackling the Awareness Issue

01.00 Lunch Break

02.00 Session 3 – The importance of data

03.00 Coffee Break

03.20 Session 4 – Financing Large Scale Deep Renovation in Rural Ireland

05.00 Closing Session

05.10 Event Ends

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Paul KennyCEO Tipperary Energy Agency

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Deep Retrofit in Rural Housing

Renovation Strategy V2.0

Paul Kenny, B.E. C. Eng.

Chief Executive

Tipperary Energy Agency

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Climate Change Reality

• “The latest science makes it clear that the world needs to reach zero

carbon emissions globally by 2050 to maximise chances of staying

below 2 degrees and to make 1.5 degrees feasible,”… Mary Robinson,

NUI maynooth, Summer 2015.

• Paris: “long term <2.0°C” /

”or 1.5°C”*

• February 2016 is 1.55°C-

1.75°C* - Nasa

• White Paper: 80%-95% CO2

by 2050

By 2050:

- 5-20% of current CO2

- Agriculture

- Transport

- Not a lot left for heat &

electricity

*above pre-industrial levels

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Energy Use

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Residential - petroleum -County Tipperary

Residential - peat - CountyTipperary

Residential - natural gas -County Tipperary

Residential - electricity -County Tipperary

Residential - coal - CountyTipperary

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National Tipperary

• Average BER rating of D

• Predominantly oil primary heating

• Peat, Coal, Electricity and some wood for primary & secondary

heating

• Predominantly semi-d & detached housing.

• Leaky (Typical 7-10 AC/h @50pa)

Rural Housing

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“nearly zero-energy building’ means a building that has a very high

energy performance. The nearly zero or very low amount of energy

required should be covered to a very significant extent by energy from

renewable sources, including energy from renewable sources produced

on-site or nearby” – Definition EPBD

Fabric:

•Substantial demand reduction from current fabric

• Wall/ roof/ floor Insulation, bridging reduction, glazing

•Substantial air leakage reduction from current

Services:

•Forced ventilation

•Well controlled, renewable, efficient, heat and hot water.

•Smart grid integration

Technical Needs

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• Net heat loads (inc. HW) of all 2040 rural dwellings.

• New NZEB: 4,000-10,000 kWh/ yr

• Existing buildings to NZEB: 6,000-15,000 kWh/ yr

• Residual heat supply choices:

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* 88% seasonal efficiency boilers for fossil fuels, 75% biomass (mix stoves/ pellets). 2026 – No Coal or Peat

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Marion JammetBusiness Development ManagerIGBC

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Co-creating Ireland’s National Renovation Strategy (2017-2020)

Tuesday, 31st May 2016

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I. Co-creating an ambitious national renovation strategy for Ireland (2017 – 2020)

II. Renovating Ireland’s residential buildings stock: Barriers & Opportunities

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• Energy Efficiency Directive (art. 4)

• National Renovation Strategies

• Long-term vision

• Updated every 3 years

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KEY LEARNING

• Importance of data

• Need for leadership

• Multi departments cross-party agreement

• Priorities of the end-users

(Co-benefits)

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20 Experts

6 Sectors

3 Questions

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Q.1 In your opinion, what are the main barriers to large scale deep

renovation in the residential buildings sector?

Q.2 What kind of changes are necessary for large-scale deep

renovation to happen in the residential building sector?

Q.3 What measure(s) have the most potential for

implementation in Ireland in a period of 5 to 15 years for

maximal impacts?

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Q.1 In your opinion, what are the main

barriers to large scale deep renovation

in the residential buildings sector?

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Renovation is not seen as a priority

Deep renovation CostSplit Incentive

Lack of Knowledge

Lack of Leadership

Perception

Lack of trusted intermediary advisors

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Q.2 What kind of changes are

necessary for large-scale deep

renovation to happen in the residential

building sector?

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Comprehensive and Independent information

Introducing new legislation

The role of local communities

Flagship high quality projects

Financial Support (home owners)

Raising awareness at governmental level

Financial Support (landlords)Skills

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Thank you

Marion Jammet

www.buildupon.eu/ireland

[email protected]

01 681 5862

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020

research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 649727.

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Session 2

Tackling the Awareness Issue

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Clare Watson

University College Cork

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Lunch Break

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Session 3

The Importance of Data

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Jonathan Griffin

Carlow Kilkenny Energy Agency

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Local Sustainable Energy Action Planning

Date: 31/05/2016

Presented By: Jonathan Griffin - CKEA

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Data4Action – EU Funded Project

12 Member States, 14 Partners

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Data4Action

The main objective

to improve the access for local authorities to energy data

this energy data will be used to assist the local authority in Sustainable Energy Action

Planning (SEAP) and monitoring

Local authorities are responsible for designing, implementing and monitoring

Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SEAPs)

Effective monitoring required for these plans which requires the

An availability of energy data for analysing trends

Also to implement a continuous improvement process of the SEAP actions

The challenge is to initiate a process to regularly exchange data between the

different stakeholders involved (utilities, energy data providers, public

authorities, etc.)

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Covenant of Mayors Overview

Signatories represent cities/regions/municipalities

Committed to implement sustainable energy policies

increased energy efficiency

development of renewable energy sources

6,317 signatories across Europe

8 in Ireland

Kilkenny County Council

Carlow County Council

Cork County Council, Kerry County Council, South Dublin County Council

Tipperary County Council, Dublin County Council, Waterford County Council

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CoM Targets

European movement to mobilise local and regional authorities to meet &

exceed the EU 20-20-20 targets:

20% decrease in Greenhouse gas emissions below 1990

levels

20% reduction in primary energy use by improving energy

efficiency

20% of EU energy consumption to come from renewable

resources

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Data4Action and Covenant of Mayors

Energy data is crucial for sustainable energy plans, which includes:

energy consumption;

as well as production on electricity, heat, gas;

and transport data etc.

Local energy data is then used for the calculation of the Baseline Emission

Inventory.

Data4Action therefore facilitates public authority access to energy data through

effective and structured collaboration agreements with energy providers.

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Energy Data –Why do we need it?

Energy data is crucial for identifying trends and priority sectors

Gives measures to target in terms of energy efficiency

improvement and transition towards renewable energy sources.

Inscribed in the municipal and regional Sustainable Energy

Action Plans (SEAPs)

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Data4Action and Covenant of Mayors

Territorial break down of data for a more detailed local analysis

and for the monitoring of local actions.

The Carlow Kilkenny Energy Agency (CKEA) is acting as the

regional facilitator for the Regional Energy Observatory

energyhub.ie.

CKEA has commitment from both Carlow County Council and Kilkenny County

Council with regards to provision of energy data for the observatory

This website will facilitate stakeholders (local authorities, SMEs, utilities and

interested bodies) to have access to accurate regional energy data. Both Carlow

County Council and Kilkenny County Council have signed the CoM

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Data4Action and Covenant of Mayors

Energy data sharing also has advantages for companies such as energy suppliers or

network operators.

By sharing their data they can actively participate and contribute to climate action

plans that are also useful for their public reputation.

Through data sharing energy suppliers and network operators also get a better

overview of the whole market at the local level and hence, they can better anticipate

the future needs of communities, territories and especially consumers.

Advantages

centralised data collection and analysis system

decrease of uncertainties to measure future trends

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Who can engage?

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Collaboration agreements

Are Key to Success!!

Have buy in: Politically and from the Utility providers

The main problems encountered are unavailable or low quality data from providers

Creating a data centre energyhub.ie is supposed to simplify the access to energy

data at regional and local level

Collaboration agreements with data providers are foreseen to guarantee the quality

of input data, the centralised database of consumptions will unify the data

processing and analysis of SEAPs

By having these collaboration agreements and access to high quality energy data at

a local level – will inform the decision makers at a local level

Having a relevant story to tell from the data collected to promote the aims of the

SEAP

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Barriers

Commercial sensitivity to sharing energy data

Need to highlight the importance of sharing energy data at a local level to Distributed System Operators

Data needs to be reviewed and verified

Lack of technical knowledge

Lack of political engagement

Time – for data monitoring, collection, review and verification

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Success Factors

As part of the EU Energy 2020 Strategy, member states must Increase Energy

Efficiency with a particular focus on the Public Sector

CKEA: Support and manage public sector energy efficiency since 2009

Ambitious objectives for public sector consumption – 33% in Ireland

Measure public sector energy activity & consumption

Support and manage public sector energy efficiency

M&R (Monitoring and Reporting) is carried out by CKEA on all public sector

energy activity and data every year

Communication with all stakeholders throughout the process

This concludes into SEAP actions for the Energy MAP in the coming years

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Lessons Learned

The process of setting up collaboration agreements is a long process – be

patient!!

The collaboration agreements should be “Win Win” for both parties. Like all

good business agreements.

Set out clearly the sectors to target. Then prioritise the most important and start

with those.

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Lessons Learned

Ensure that the data format is agreed and where possible made as painless and

transparent as is possible for the data provider. You don’t want to be seen as a

nuisance.

Regularly update the collaboration partners with progress in the program.

Continuously engage the elected representatives in the process. They need

education and are interested. Linking weather incidents to SEAP is opportunity.

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Thank You! For Further Information and support:

www.data4action.eu

www.energyhub.ie

Your local contact for Data4Action is

Jonathan Griffin

+353 (0)56 7790857

[email protected]

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Albert Jordan

DCENR

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Introduction to the

Warmth and Wellbeing Pilot Scheme

Dr. Albert Jordan

Policy Analyst, Energy Efficiency & Affordability Division

Department of Communications, Climate Change & Natural Resources

(formerly Dept. Communications, Energy & Natural Resources)

IGBC Workshop - 31 May 2016 - Cloughjordan

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Policy ContextEnergy

• White Paper (Dec. 2015)– Vision = low carbon energy future

– Citizen engagement

– Multiple benefits of energy efficiency

Energy Poverty Strategy – (Feb. 2016)– Key Action - Warmth and Wellbeing pilot scheme

Health– Healthy Ireland Framework - Focus on prevention -

Healthier for longer - Wellbeing valued

– Everyone’s responsibility

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Energy Efficiency and Health

• IEA work on multiple benefits

• Warm Up New Zealand scheme

• Link between cold damp houses and respiratory diseases, as well as general wellbeing

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Warmth and Wellbeing – What?

• Deep energy efficiency improvements

• Attic and wall insulation

• Ventilation

• Heating systems

• Boiler replacement

• Energy advice

• €20,000,000/3yr.

Slide 58

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Warmth and Wellbeing – How?

• Referral from healthcare professionals

• Survey of house by SEAI surveyor - KSN

• Works carried out by SEAI registered contractor

• Impact Assessment

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Warmth and Wellbeing Who + Where?

Pilot Participants

• People living with COPD or asthma

• Households on the Fuel Allowance

• People aged over 55 in 2016

• Pilot Area (2016) = Dublin 12 and 24.

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Warmth and Wellbeing – When?

• Pilot to run for 3 years, from 2016

• Intend to widen scope to include families with children in 2017

• The evaluation will indicate potential for national rollout

Schedule:-

• Referrals from March

• Works from May-Sept.

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Warmth and Wellbeing Evaluation

• Independent evaluation of health status and outcomes

• Revisit house at 6 months, 1 year and 2 years

• Build evidence base for wider national rollout

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For further information contact:Ken Cleary: [email protected] O’Connor: [email protected]

Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

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Coffee Break

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Session 4

Financing Deep Renovation in Rural Ireland

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Paul KennyCEO Tipperary Energy Agency

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Superhomes Approach

(i.e. NZEB Retrofit)

Paul Kenny, B.E. C. Eng.

Chief Executive

Tipperary Energy Agency

31st May 2016

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2006 House of Tomorrow Shallow Retrofit 80 homes (F to D)

EU SERVE project 400 buildings E1 to B2 (HES Pilot)

2013-2015 ~1000 fuel poverty/ Shallow F to E

Super-Homes

D2 to A2/3 Deep Retrofit

TEA & Domestic Retrofit

“We’re frustrated with lack of depth and

continued use of fossil fuels. We need

deeper, faster and renewable retrofit”

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Domestic CO2 reduction options

• Passive House Retrofit

• At generational retrofit (30-50 years) –

when large works being undertaken:

– External insulation to foundation, and

through soffit.

– Remove ceilings, membrane

installation, and replace floor.

– New windows & doors, airtight to

fabric.

– Airtightness to 0.6-2 ACH;

– HRV, External airsource stoves,

heatpumps with underfloor heating.

– 80k+ additional cost Vs standard

deep renovation (re-wire/ plastering/

plumbing)

– BER of 40-60 kWh/M2/annum.

– €200-€400 to heat.

– 85%+ Reduction in Energy

– 1.8M houses @80k = 144Bn Euro.

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• At deep retrofit w/o long payback

fabric upgrades but higher

ongoing heat use using RES-E

(via grid)

– External insulation where required;

– Achieve moderate Air tightness.

– New front doors.

– New windows where required;

– Demand controlled extract ventilation.

– Heatpumps designed to COP 3

– 20-40k cost. (28k in 2015)

– BER of A3/B1 kWh/M2/annum. (67 in

2015)

– €400- €600 to heat Vs €1800

– 1.8M houses @28k = 50Bn Euro.

– €2Bn/ Annum Vs <€200M today

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“I don’t know what to do, How do I know what is value for money? What product is

good, and what is not?”

“Who will do the work, and how can I trust them?”

“I can’t afford the capital cost, but I have high bills!”

“I want cheap finance, but am reluctant to re-mortgage”

“It’s too much hassle, if only someone would just do it for me!”

“Who will make sure it is done correctly”

“if I sell the house, all the money will be wasted”

“How can we expect home owners to design and implement a retrofit of this quality

– we need to have an offering, like this” - DCENR

Barriers to Deep Retrofit

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• Superhomes Designed to bring SERVE experience to NZEB

• Expert guided deep retrofit.

• Panel of contractors compete for work

• Negotiation on final measures with advice.

• Arranged Grants

• Arranged Finance

• Certification of works

• Research

• Policy input

What Is Superhomes?

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Superhomes 2015

Retrofit heat-pumps: “it can’t be done”

• Heat pumps won’t work because of high temp radiators and poor

airtightness; air-tight houses need ventilation

• Solution: Design radiators to 45°C @-3°C; 35°C average

• Retrofit airtightness & forced ventilation

• Deal with open flues.

• Including sensible standard retrofit measures

Implementation:

• Trusted advisor (sell, survey &

educate).

• Procure and manage contractor &

ensure delivery & value.

• Manage grants / payments /

contracts/ monitoring.

• Electric Ireland: Energy credits &

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Homeowner Testimonials

• “If I didn’t save any money on this project, it would still be worthwhile” – Homeowner

after investing 15k

• “I never even heard of air-quality, the combination of heat and air quality has

made a massive difference to the comfort of this home”. 2003 timberframe home with

UFCH

• “We used to smell my sons hurling kit, now we have to look for it.”

• “No longer smell the dogs in the house”

• “I’m down to less than €20 a week to heat my house, That would have been

€50+ last year!”

• “I’m amazed what a difference a constant temperature makes to comfort”

• “I want to go to bed now, my room is no longer cold” - Emer aged 6.

• “The only reason I applied was because of the TEA, Trust is a big part of the

decision”

“What you have achieved here for the investment is very impressive –

specially the comfort & air quality” - DCELG

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Homeowner Value Equation

ValueTrusted &

Demonstrated

Savings

Quality

Value

Service

Comfort

Appearance &

Environmental

Performance

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• Non profit, public good social

enterprise

• Partnership approach

• Energy management

• Renewable energy and energy

efficiency

• Procurement, project mgmt.

• Cost effective, value driven

• Paul Kenny

• Chief Executive

• T: 052 7443090

• F: 052 7443012

• E: [email protected]

• W: www.tea.ie

Tipperary Energy Agency

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St. Canice’s Community Energy Loan Scheme 2015

In Partnership with:

CKEA (Carlow Kilkenny Energy Agency)

SEAI (Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland)

Presentation By: Jonathan Griffin (CKEA)

Date: 31st May 2016

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Application• Application made in November 2014

• St. Canice’s Credit Union Ltd. as lead Applicant

• Carlow Kilkenny Energy Agency as Project Coordinator

• Offering loan Rate 6.4% (APR 6.6%)

• 30% loan on all energy efficiency upgrades.

• Home Renovation Incentive Scheme (HRI), 13.5 tax credit back over 2 Years

• Sale of Energy Credits at €0.075 per kWh Saved

• 40,000 active member accounts.

Summary of Project Finances Project Application Cost

Total Eligible Cost €1,215,000

Total SEAI Grant €300,000

Total kWh Saved 975,150 kWh

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Approval• Technical and Financial review by SEAI

• Follow up technical and financial queries to CKEA and St Canices Credit Union

• Final approval given in and letter of offer in March 2015

Summary of Project Finances Project Application Cost

Total Eligible Cost €1,185,000

Total SEAI Grant €300,000

Sale of Energy Credits €78,180

Total kWh Saved 977,000 kWh

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Promotion

• Social media

• Facebook - CKEA & St Canice’s CU

• Twitter - CKEA & St Canice’s CU

• Linked In - CKEA

• Local Radio - KCLR

• Local Newspaper

• Kilkenny People

• Kilkenny Reporter

• Coffee Morning Mornings

• Promotion Evenings - St Canice’s CU Branches

• Workshop Event with local contractors and suppliers

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Challenges

• Time of the year when programme was launched (March) coming out of winter planning for summer.

• Increase in grant funding from national home energy efficiency scheme at the same time as Community Energy loan scheme launch.

• Time scale to complete projects – October 2015 (8 Months)

• Time required to carry out energy audits.

• Working audits around working hours.

• Not all measures were allowed

• Photovoltaic not grant eligible leading to

loss of projects.

• Limited to Kilkenny Common Bond Members

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ResultsCommunity Energy Loan Scheme - Piolet 2015

81 Expressions of Interest made

43 Completed Projects

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Dwelling Examples

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Learnings

• Launch scheme during winter months when people are more aware of energy costs, home comfort conditions etc.

• Closing date for scheme needs to be over longer period than 8 months

• A reduced energy auditing process and tools implemented half way through project.

• Push to allow PV as an eligible measure in future projects

• Active marketing within some of the large

companies within the city.

• Additional communication between

SEAI, CKEA & St Canices CU

(Joint meetings every 2 Weeks)

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Plans for 2016

• Application for larger Project to incorporate more Credit Unions within the County.

• Application for a larger project which will greater facilitate applicants during the winter period.

• Streamline application process with the introduction of a online application and tender system.

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Thank You

For Further Information Contact

Paddy Phelan (Manager)

Carlow Kilkenny Energy Agency

[email protected]

Follow CKEA on Twitter @CKEAgency

Like Us on Facebook “Carlow Kilkenny Energy Agency”

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Co-Creating Ireland’s National

Renovation Strategy – V.2

Cloughjordan, 31st May 2016