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Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland

Also known as SEAI.

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland is the public body charged with encouraging sustainable energy and helping it develop. Its founding Act styles it both Sustainable Energy Ireland and the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, and later orders have added further tasks, including work on energy efficiency.

It was established on 1 May 2002. Section 4 of the Sustainable Energy Act 2002 created the Authority on the establishment day, and S.I. No. 655 of 2002 appointed that day.

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31 Dec 2024 University College Dublin Overcoming the Bottlenecks of Hydrogen-to-Biomethane Process for Renewable Energy Storage (FeNiX) · Research focused on enhansing the sustainabiliy of hydrogen-to-biomethane conversion processes · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €564,955
31 Dec 2024 Technological University of Shannon Development of a Polymer Composite Material with High Hydrogen Storage using AI-enhanced Multi-scale Modelling · Development of solid-state hydrogen storage for energy use · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €545,500
31 Dec 2024 Trinity College Dublin Assessing the potential of subsurface structures to facilitate efficient and renewable district heating and cooling systems in Ireland · Exploration of the district heating possibilities for housing groups and apartments in Ireland · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €537,675
31 Dec 2024 University of Galway Implementing recast EPBD IV building life cycle GWP disclosure requirements in Ireland (IMPLEMENT) · Development of a pathway for Ireland to implement the recast EPB Directive · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €405,470
31 Dec 2024 Trinity College Dublin GEODYN: Geotechnical Dynamic Analysis for Offshore Wind · Enhancing the knowledge about offshore wind turbine foundations through advanced testing of the Irish seabed · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €370,250
31 Dec 2024 IERC, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork Future Irish Energy System Observatory (FIESO) · Development of future energy system scenarios · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €332,994
31 Dec 2024 Maynooth University HYDROSTAL: Hydropower Variability and Droughts from Stalagmite Analysis · HYDROSTAL will create a history of past drought in Ireland using the changing chemical composition of stalagmites growing in sheltered cave environments deep underground. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €299,994
31 Dec 2024 Atlantic Technological University (ATU) GREENBAT: Bat migration and offshore wind energy in Ireland · Exploration into the potential impacts and migration patterns of Irish bats for offshore wind energy applications · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €299,544
31 Dec 2024 University of Galway Advanced Numerical Modelling of Coupled Fatigue-Erosion Damage of Composite Wind Turbine Blades Toward Enhanced Predictive Maintenance (WINLIFE) · Research on erosion's influence on wind turbine blade weakening · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €275,514
31 Dec 2024 University College Dublin Navigating Uncertainties: Advanced Control Solutions for Inverter-Dominated Power Systems (NU-ACTIS) · The project studies how growing renewable energy and inverter-based technologies introduce new stability challenges, and develops advanced control solutions to ensure secure and reliable power system operation. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €249,986
31 Dec 2024 University College Dublin ‘Light’ plastic waste upcycling · Conversion of plastic waste into upcycled materials using sunlight · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €236,323
31 Dec 2024 Economic and Social Research Institute Renewable Energy and FORward Markets (REFORM) · Project investigating the issues and insentives for Ireland's participation in the forward renewables market · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €233,391
31 Dec 2024 HeatGrid Ireland Heat Recovery from Wastewater Treatment Plants to Supply Existing Buildings with Low-Carbon Heat via District Heating · To demonstrate how heat recovered from wastewater can supply a low-carbon district heating network for the University of Limerick and provide a scalable model for decarbonising buildings across Ireland. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €207,078
31 Dec 2024 Flexible Power Solutions Limited A roadmap towards 70 percent carbon neutral high temperature industrial heating, using Electric Boilers, Thermal Storage and would-be wasted indigenous green electricity. · Possibilities of thermal energy storage electrification and implications for carbon reduction · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €203,689
31 Dec 2024 Dublin City University (DCU) ACHIEVE: Accelerating Community energy, Harnessing Insights and Engaging for Viable and just Energy transitions · The ACHIEVE Project aims to support societal acceptance and citizen engagement for the energy transition. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €184,735
31 Dec 2024 IERC, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork Accelerating Carbon Transition through Awareness and Quantification of Non-Energy Benefits of Energy Efficiency (ACTIVATE) · Quantifying the non-energy benefits (NEBs) of improving building energy efficiency · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €155,256
31 Dec 2024 University College Cork (Tyndall National Institute) Policy innovation to solve the split-incentive issue in multi-sectoral rented buildings (Polinreb) · Polinreb will develop a survey to identify challenges and opportunities to support a greater uptake of energy efficiency upgrades in rented buildings and improve the environmental impact of rented properties. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €116,696
31 Dec 2024 University College Dublin CO2 utilization to ethylene: Mechanistic insight into C-C coupling over core–shell nanostructured electrocatalysts · Project focusing on the conversion of CO2 into chemical compounds, aiming to reduce Irish CO2 emissions · Status: Ongoing Q4 2024 €102,860
31 Dec 2025 Maynooth University Photoelectrochemical generation of green hydrogen coupled with the upcycling of waste plastics (H2PECUP) · Renewable hydrogen from water electrolysis can help Ireland meet climate goals, but the oxygen evolution is energy intensive. In this project, this reaction is replaced with plastic-waste upcycling, to conserve energy and generate valuable chemicals. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €1,199,794
31 Dec 2025 University College Dublin Underground Thermal Energy Storage for Decarbonizing District Heating Systems (ThermStore-DH) · This project will assess how underground thermal energy storge can support low-carbon district heating in Ireland by identifying suitable geological settings, optimizing system design, and evaluating technical, economic, and environmental performance. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €1,101,041
31 Dec 2025 Technological University Dublin STREAM- Sustainable Transport Through Renewable Energy And Maritime Transfer Services · The aim of Project STREAM is to develop renewable-powered off-grid shore charging solutions for ports, using smart energy management, energy storage, and sustainable financing to support affordable and resilient maritime decarbonisation. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €1,040,671
31 Dec 2025 Trinity College Dublin CIRCUIT: Causal Inference for Resilient Cities and Urban Integrated Transport · AI and data analytics reveal how transport, energy use, and urban growth interact to support sustainable Irish cities. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €1,026,125
31 Dec 2025 Dublin City University Participatory Outcomes for Well-being and Energy Resilience: Empowering Citizens for a Just Transition (SHINE) · SHINE is an interdisciplinary project utilising citizen science to empower social housing residents, tracking real-time indoor air quality and energy use to design inclusive public policies for a just climate transition in Ireland. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €992,000
31 Dec 2025 University of Galway EMPOWER: Empower AD deployment through zero-waste valorisation of digestate and biogenic CO2 for commercial fertilizers and high-value bioproducts production · This project aims to develop a zero-waste, integrated process that converts digestate and CO₂ into fertilizers and high-value bioproducts, thereby supporting anaerobic digestion deployment. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €951,773
31 Dec 2025 University of Limerick Marine Robotic Inspection and Exploration System for Offshore Wind (MARINEX) · MARINEX builds on earlier work in robotic inspection of offshore wind turbines to develop a more advanced, autonomous, and cost-effective system for inspecting both offshore and bottom-fixed floating wind turbines. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €874,310
31 Dec 2025 University College Cork REGARD - Regional Strategies for Collaborative Anaerobic Digestion and Biorefinery Development in Ireland · REGARD project (Regional Strategies for Collaborative Anaerobic Digestion and Biorefinery Development in Ireland) adopts a place-based, multi-actor approach to create regionally tailored, collaborative AD and biorefinery models. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €709,932
31 Dec 2025 University College Cork Alternative Indigenous fuels produced in circular economy systems for use in island Ferry services in Ireland (AI-Ferry) · Enhance sustainability of island communities through assessment of battery powered ferries, and community run renewable energy grids to power the batteries, and to provide resilient green energy to the island communities. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €666,829
31 Dec 2025 International Energy Research Centre (IERC) Tyndall National Institute EPCO - A co-designed framework to address groups most vulnerable to energy poverty · EPCO unites researchers, NGOs, policymakers, and vulnerable communities in a co-designed framework to tackle energy poverty in Ireland — building national capacity and setting new standards for inclusive, evidence-based policymaking. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €646,880
31 Dec 2025 University of Galway RECAST: Forecasting Renewable Energy Potential in Ireland’s Changing Climate · The RECAST project aims to forecast the impact of future climate change (up to 2100) on Ireland’s renewable energy (RE) resources - wind, solar, and wave - using high-resolution climate, wave and energy model simulations and datasets. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €644,849
31 Dec 2025 University College Dublin Spatial mapping and AI-based renewable technology framework for utilising emissions and low-carbon fuel integration in Ireland (SMART-IE) · SMART-IE will identify and optimise where and how Ireland can convert biogenic and process CO₂ with renewable electricity into green hydrogen and e-methanol. It combines spatial mapping, AI, and energy-system modelling to support low-carbon fuel deploymen · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €265,808
31 Dec 2025 University College Dublin Community-based Programmes for Sustainable Energy (COPSE): a qualitative, multi-methods analysis of community energy programmes in Ireland · The COPSE project will use multiple qualitative methods to assess how and why different SEAI community energy programmes enable citizens to participate in the energy transition at scales ranging from the local to the national level. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €241,045
31 Dec 2025 Maynooth University Enhancing carbon dioxide capture and its electrochemical reduction with the development of MOFs/COFs and 2D borophene-based supercapacitors (COMET) · In COMET, our vision is to develop supercapacitor-like materials for the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) and, aiming for an even brighter future, the captured CO2 will be electrochemically reduced and converted to high value-added products. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €240,447
31 Dec 2025 HeatGrid Ireland Industrial Waste Heat and Hydrogen: A Pathway to Decarbonising through District Heating · This project will assess how waste heat from industry, hydrogen production, sawmills and data centres can supply low-carbon district heating, creating practical evidence and national mapping to accelerate heat decarbonisation across Ireland. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €238,491
31 Dec 2025 Maynooth University DeepLEAP: Deep-reinforcement-Learning-based control for Energy harvesting And Platform stabilization of wave energy converters integrated to floating offshore wind turbines · This project aims to develop a novel control framework for wave energy converters that are integrated on floating offshore wind turbines, in order to improve wave energy capture and simultaneously stabilize platform motion under wind and wave loads. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €232,145
31 Dec 2025 Technological University of the Shannon Development of Breathable Bio-Based Polyurethane Foam from Indigenous Irish Biomass for Energy-Efficient Building Insulation · The project aims to develop breathable, bio-based polyurethane insulation foams from Irish seaweed and wheat straw, offering a low-carbon, CE-ready alternative to conventional materials for energy-efficient buildings. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €220,860
31 Dec 2025 University of Limerick Lignin4BioGas: 3D-Printed Lignin Electrodes for Enhanced Biomethane Production in Microbial Electrolysis Cell-Integrated Anaerobic Digestion · Developing 3D-printed lignin-based electrodes to enhance biomethane production by integrating microbial electrolysis cells with anaerobic digestion, improving methane yield, CO2 conversion, and system stability. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €218,582
31 Dec 2025 University of Galway Retrofitting Ireland’s homes: An examination of existing retrofit programmes and supports, the householder retrofit journey and opportunities for success in Ireland’s retrofit industry · This research explores homeowners’ experiences with SEAI residential retrofit supports, and examines the retrofit journey, the retrofit barriers and drivers faced, and the role of Sustainable Energy Communities in facilitating retrofit progress. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €167,797
31 Dec 2025 Unknown organisation SPARK IT Supporting Participatory Action for Renewable Kommunities – Implementation and Transition · Helping communities develop renewable energy cooperatives for a cleaner future. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €160,000
31 Dec 2025 Atlantic Technological University Power Where It’s Needed the Most: A Geo-Targeted Strategy for Clean Energy in County Sligo · This project will deliver a practical tool to help SEAI, local authorities, and communities identify where clean energy and retrofit supports can alleviate energy poverty—starting in County Sligo. · Status: Ongoing Q4 2025 €154,475

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