SEAI Research Grant Awards 2018

Grant awards

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2018	University College Cork	Community Engagement in Wind Energy: Innovative approaches to achieving a social license (Co-Wind) · This project focuses on understanding how community engagement in wind energy can be improved · Status: Complete	Grant	€541,198
31 Dec 2018	Dublin City University	Using Surplus Energy to generate Hydrogen; (USE H2) · Hydrogen production via water splitting using offers a solution for both the energy crisis and a reduction in CO2 emissions. · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€466,100
31 Dec 2018	University of Limerick	Slurres Pilot · Livestock slurries are one of the most widely available and underutilised resources in Ireland · Status: Complete	Grant	€427,884
31 Dec 2018	Cork Institute of Technology	Digi Blocks · Digiblocks aims to support transformation of the energy sector through digitisation · Status: Complete	Grant	€421,289
31 Dec 2018	IES	Assessment Methodology Building Energy Ratings (AMBER); · Energy use in dwellings and non-residential buildings, accounts for almost 40% of primary energy supply in Ireland. · Status: Complete	Grant	€416,062
31 Dec 2018	University College Dublin	Using blockchains to facilitate renewable power generation: forecasting, hedging and tokenisation applications · There is a real potential for the Irish renewables industry to gain a competitive edge by embracing new processes and systems enabled by emerging blockchain technology · Status: Complete	Grant	€409,000
31 Dec 2018	University of Limerick	Enhancement of Inertial Stabilisation of the Electricity Grid using Local Electrochemical Processes for Load Levelling · Efficiently exploiting renewable, sustainable and green energy resources is one of the most critical challenges facing Ireland today. · Status: Complete	Grant	€385,518
31 Dec 2018	SSE Airtricity	FREMI (Forecasting Renewable Energy with Machine Intelligence) · This project seeks to increase the accuracy of the current wind turbine forecasting methods and develop and deploy a tool capable of assisting energy traders under the new market rules posed by I-SEM. · Status: Complete	Grant	€369,830
31 Dec 2018	University College Cork	EnergyPOLITIES: Politico-institutional framing of collective engagements with the energy system · Public opposition to energy infrastructure projects is a significant limiting factor to successful mass deployment of renewable technologies. · Status: Complete	Grant	€354,721
31 Dec 2018	Westway Health	GEBTechTM (Green Energy Boosting Technology): A novel treatment for farm slurries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to generate energy · There is a clear need for effective, affordable interventions and products to promote sustainable energy production and to mitigate GHG emissions · Status: Complete	Grant	€333,025
31 Dec 2018	University College Dublin	WindPearl - Robust Real-Time Wind Power Prediction and Early, Accurate Estimation of Downtime for Irish Wind Farms in an Integrated Single Electricity Market · Wind energy must be commercially competitive to be economically sustainable. This project will look to increase wind turbine availability, reduce operational costs and reduce uncertainties around energy yield · Status: Complete	Grant	€325,982
31 Dec 2018	Trinity College Dublin	Enhanced Controllers to Improve Wind Farm Efficiency · Can new enhanced controllers improve the efficiency of Wind farm efficiency and increase wind farm life span · Status: Complete	Grant	€324,788
31 Dec 2018	University College Dublin	nZEB_101 · The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) requires that all new dwellings are nearly Zero Energy Building (nZEB) compliant from 2020 · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€321,011
31 Dec 2018	National University of Ireland Galway	BIO-RPISM: biofuel production, digestate purification and CO2 sequestration with highly productive auto-floating microalgae technology · Micro Algae derived biofuels have been deemed as a promising biofuel. This project looks at developing novel technologies in this area. · Status: Complete	Grant	€312,971
31 Dec 2018	National University of Ireland Galway	Next generation modular energy generating greenhouse (NGMEGG) · Much of our food is produced in greenhouses that require large amounts of energy for heat and light. · Status: Complete	Grant	€286,245
31 Dec 2018	University College Cork	Support tools for community renewable energy · Community groups need to be consulted as early as possible in order to gain their support for the development of renewable energy projects · Status: Complete	Grant	€284,414
31 Dec 2018	National University of Ireland Galway	Assessment of VentilAtion effectiveness via a Longitudinal indoor environmental study in 'A' rated Irish Dwellings: VALIDate · This project aims to investigate and monitor indoor environmental quality in 100 ‘A’ rated energy efficient Irish residential dwellings · Status: Complete	Grant	€271,326
31 Dec 2018	Dublin City University	Reliable and Efficient Photo-electrochemical Water Splitting for Hydrogen Fuel · The project looks at solar water splitting and the collection and storage of solar energy in the form of hydrogen fuel · Status: Complete	Grant	€255,050
31 Dec 2018	Dundalk Institute of Technology	Dundalk Virtual Energy Microgrid (DVEM) · The Dundalk Virtual Energy Microgrid aims to model a medium and large industrial, commercial and public sector zone in the area of Dundalk in County Louth. · Status: Complete	Grant	€250,133
31 Dec 2018	Dublin City University	Optical Antennas and the Purcell effect: towards efficient solar concentration · Urban areas often have limited capacity to harvest solar energy · Status: Complete	Grant	€246,574
31 Dec 2018	Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), NUIG	CAO IRL Coupled Atmosphere Ocean Wave Forecasts for Ireland · An integrated solar, wind and wave energy forecasting system will have important implications for renewable energy applications in Ireland · Status: Complete	Grant	€241,792
31 Dec 2018	National University of Ireland, Galway	Social acceptability of wind farms and electricity export: a discrete choice econometric approach · How does the export of renewable energy affect the social acceptability of wind-farm development? · Status: Complete	Grant	€233,796
31 Dec 2018	University College Dublin	Agri Bio Circular Economy (ABC Economy) · There exists a significant opportunity to harness biomass to build a sustainable circular bioeconomy. · Status: Complete	Grant	€228,213
31 Dec 2018	National University of Ireland, Galway	Indoor air quality, ventilation and occupant comfort in Irish domestic dwellings pre and post Deep Energy renovations · Deep Energy Renovations bring improved energy performance but what impact does this have on indoor air quality. · Status: Complete	Grant	€204,533
31 Dec 2018	Inferrit Limited	Continuous Commissioning to Create High Performance Buildings · Studies indicate that Ongoing Commissioning software can deliver 10-30% HVAC System energy savings in buildings that have only received Initial Commissioning. · Status: Complete	Grant	€200,840
31 Dec 2018	Electricity Exchange DAC.	Low Cost Monitoring and Control of Small Scale Renewables · A new generation of low cost, high speed power system smart metering and control. · Status: Complete	Grant	€191,434
31 Dec 2018	Irish Manufacturing Research	The True Cost of the Energy – Water Nexus in Manufacturing. · Whilst the statement “saving water saves energy” can be easily understood, the true cost of the water resource cannot be easily calculated. · Status: Complete	Grant	€191,333
31 Dec 2018	NUI Galway	Enhancing and Assessing the Impact of Novel Circular Economy Sectors in the bioeconomy · The purpose of this project is to assess the impact of novel circular economy sectors within the Irish biomass bioeconomy and issues in relation to scale-up. · Status: Complete	Grant	€185,720
31 Dec 2018	Trinity College Dublin	Trinity Smart Grid · Non-intrusive load monitoring has the capability to change how consumers use energy. · Status: Complete	Grant	€182,974
31 Dec 2018	University College Dublin	Thin film tech for smart windows · This project aims to design and test a novel flexible self-powered smart window technology to enable energy savings for domestic and commercial buildings · Status: Complete	Grant	€181,418
31 Dec 2018	Codema	Dublin Region Energy Masterplan · An Energy Masterplan allows Local Authorities to create effective energy policy in order to meet CO2 reduction targets. This project focuses on the Dublin region. · Status: Complete	Grant	€179,135
31 Dec 2018	University College Dublin	Mapping Webtool to Support the Preparation of Local Authority Renewable Energy Strategies · This project delivered an operational and user-friendly Webtool to map environmental sensitivity specific to each and all the renewable energy technologies and, in this way, support the assessment of sectoral constraints and facilitators. · Status: Complete	Grant	€176,047
31 Dec 2018	Exergyn	Exergyn Heat Pump · Exergyn is seeking to develop a demonstrable small-scale prototype of a novel heat pump · Status: Complete	Grant	€126,940
31 Dec 2018	Trinity College Dublin	Reducing Energy Consumption in Air Filtration Systems (RECAFS) · Trinity College research project looks at reducing energy consumption of Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems · Status: Complete	Grant	€123,975
31 Dec 2018	Irish Green Building Council	Building Upon Ireland's National Renovation Strategy · Putting Ireland on realistic trajectory to 2050 climate targets require a step change in the level of activity in renovation and the 'depth' of energy efficiency upgrades · Status: Complete	Grant	€120,401
31 Dec 2018	Dublin City University	Role of Heterogenous Energy Storage in Paris Aligned Scenarios for the Irish Energy System · The electrification of all energy use cannot be relied upon alone to meet the strict Paris temperature goals. The role of heterogenous energy storage needs to be considered. · Status: Complete	Grant	€117,455
31 Dec 2018	National University of Ireland Galway	The Aeration In-Use Factor: The in-use aeration energy efficiency of two technologies in the wastewater treatment industry · Aeration alone can account for between 45 and 75% of total energy usage at wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) · Status: Complete	Grant	€113,053
31 Dec 2018	The Heritage Council	Energy Renovation of Traditional Buildings – CPD roll-out · This project aims to support Irish building specifiers with the challenges and risks of renovating traditional buildings for improved energy efficiency · Status: Complete	Grant	€112,340
31 Dec 2018	University College Dublin	Urban Building Energy Model · The majority of energy use and related carbon emissions arise from cities, which occupy less than 3% of the planet's land area. · Status: Complete	Grant	€100,336
31 Dec 2018	Impact9 Ltd	Enhanced Survivability Assessment of Anaconda Mk1C · Scale 1:25 model tests of the Anaconda device at the Lir wave tank test facility in Cork · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€97,000
31 Dec 2018	Gavin and Doherty Geosolutions Ltd. (GDG)	Demonstration of enhanced sliding resistance for ocean energy gravity substructures · Demonstration of enhanced sliding resistance for ocean energy gravity substructures · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€96,608
31 Dec 2018	Cork Institute of Technology	Agricultural Energy Optimisation Platform (AEOP) · This project aims to support decision-making relating to the most suitable energy technology for specific agricultural applications. · Status: Complete	Grant	€91,317
31 Dec 2018	Trinity College Dublin	Fundamental Information for Technology Commercialisation of Lignocellulosic Waste to Liquid Transportation Fuels by Acid Hydrolysis · Liquid transportation fuels can be produced from non-food waste lignocellulosic biomass. · Status: Complete	Grant	€90,549
31 Dec 2018	Limerick Institute of Technology	FactHP - In Use Factors for Heat Pumps and other energy technologies in Residential Buildings · Heat pumps in the domestic sector have been shown to reduce the energy required for space heating. · Status: Complete	Grant	€77,637
31 Dec 2018	Trinity College Dublin	Quantifying Light Loss across Ireland and Identifying Patterns of Energy Use · Space-based measurements show that Irish towns are bright at night and this light has been increasing due to increasing population and development · Status: Complete	Grant	€73,128
31 Dec 2018	University College Dublin	Exploration of Air Source Heat Pumps for Ireland's Residential Heating Needs · Domestic heating must be substantially decarbonised if Ireland's goals for the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions are to be achieved. · Status: Complete	Grant	€70,290
31 Dec 2018	Cork Institute of Technology	DesignForlU: Comparison of certified versus operational performance of energy efficient technologies · This study aims to monitor several residential and non-residential Mechanical Ventilation Heat Recovery Systems (MVHR), Air to Water and Exhaust Air Heat Pumps (AWHP, EAHP) Systems. · Status: Complete	Grant	€66,218
31 Dec 2018	Irish BioEnergy Association	Biomass Practitioners Register · It is absolutely critical that installations are reliable, efficient and do not have a negative impact on air quality · Status: Complete	Grant	€53,781
31 Dec 2018	MRIA	Study of the marine spatial planning needs of Marine Renewables Emerging Technologies (MRET) and the arrangements required to ensure the appropriate deployment and development of MRET offshore · An investigation of the Marine Spatial Planning needs of emerging marine renewable technologies · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€50,450
31 Dec 2018	XD Sustainable Energy Consulting Ltd	Retrokit 2.0 - A Cloud-Based Project Planning and Implementation Toolkit to Foster the Uptake of Deep Energy Retrofit in Housing. · The uptake of Deep Energy Retrofit could be accelerated if solutions to barriers such as lack of planning and project management tools were developed. · Status: Complete	Grant	€50,000

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