Home Energy Upgrade

How it works?

• Stage 1:

  We will visit your home, complete a home assessment and provide a bespoke energy report (BER). This report will outline the most economic and best quality solution to get to a B2 energy rating. This will include:
  o Measures required to meet B2 energy rating
  o Estimated Costs of proposed measures
  o Estimated Grant of proposed measures

• Stage 2:

  Once the measures required form the Energy Audit report and client meeting are confirmed, the BER will be published while procuring the best qualified contractor to price the works. The contractor will finalise the costs of each measure and will give us a programme for when the works can be completed. We will apply for the grant on your behalf as part of the SEAI’s Better Energy Communities Scheme. Final figures, including your grant, will be provided to help make your final decision to proceed.

• Stage 3:

  The contractor will arrive on site to complete the measures. South East Energy Agency will confirm any queries highlighted related to the retrofit project during the confirmed and regular meetings with the homeowner. South East Energy Agency will ensure that the relevant standards and programme requirements are achieved. The final BER report will then be published and provided to you after the completion of the project.

Once on the One Stop Shop Journey, South East Energy Agency will ensure you get peace of mind and ultimately gain a comfortable and energy efficient home.

Requirements to note before applying

• South East Energy Agency is not a SEAI registered One Stop Shop
• Grant Funding is awarded POST works
• Please note that all homes require a pre- and post-works Building Energy Rating (BER) to be completed and published.
• Home was built and occupied before 2011 for insulation and heating controls.
• Home was built and occupied before 2011 for renewable systems grants.
• Home has an existing BER of B3 or lower and must achieve a minimum rating of B2 on work completion, with a 100kWh/m2/year or better improvement on the BER primary energy value.
• Home has not previously received grants for the same home energy upgrades.
• Fossil fuel boilers are not supported in any way by this scheme and their installation is actively discouraged by SEAI.
• SEAI reserve the right to conduct 100% pre works inspection of all domestic sites in advance of any contract award.
• Public bodies must comply with public procurement rules.

Project Costs

Costs can be difficult to determine accurately however we can provide estimates based on your house type. Please note that this grant programme is designed for multiple energy upgrades and will not be supporting individual energy upgrades.

There will be a fixed fee for Stage 1 & 2, while there will be a % fee for Stage 3.

Stage 1 – €595 (ExVAT) Home assessment

Stage 2 – €900 (ExVAT) South East Energy Agency completing Stage 2 procurement / Stage 2 – €700 (ExVAT) Client completing Stage 2 procurement

Stage 3 – 7.5% project charge of total cost of retrofit works (range €1,500 – €4,500 depending on type of house and costs of works)

Homeowners can end the journey at any stage and will only be liable for fees for the stage they leave on.

A combination of upgrades are necessary to meet the programme requirements.  The average total capital cost to upgrade a home from an average BER rating of F to an average A3 rating is approximately €59,000 and upgrading to an average B1 rating is approximately €30,000.

Please find key findings of SEAI’s Deep Retrofit programme below, with multiple home energy upgrades.

The Deep Retrofit key findings can be seen here.