SEAI Research Grant Awards 2024

Grant awards

Payment date^*	Supplier	Description	Kind	Amount
31 Dec 2024	GlasPort Bio Ltd	GasAbate Complete: green energy boosting technology - Complete offering for poultry, swine, dairy & beef sectors · Demonstration research into the uses of animal slurry as a starter for anaerobic digestion · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€1,550,300
31 Dec 2024	University College Dublin	BL3W - Bike Library 3 workplaces · Exploring the utilisation of electro-bikes & e-cargo bikes by corporate users · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€1,247,240
31 Dec 2024	Marine Materials Ireland Ltd.	Design, development and testing of critical components for megawatt-scale, floating, vertical axis wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean (Design4C) · Addressing the design barriers of a vertical axis wind turbine on offshore floating platforms · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€925,218
31 Dec 2024	ÉireComposites Teo	R3WIND - Repairable, recyclable and re-usable wind turbine blades · Exploring the design of sustainable wind turbine blades suitable for simplified dissassembly, repair & repowering · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€894,144
31 Dec 2024	Gavin & Doherty Geosolutions	Ground Rigid Install Pile Anchor – GRIP Anchor · Evaluation of GRIP anchor and scale modelling for prediction of behaviour of said anchor in rigid ground. · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€892,821
31 Dec 2024	TechWorks Marine	Leveraging Ocean Power Assessments for Research, Development, & Sustainability (LeOPARDS) · Development of a wave behaviour model for Ireland · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€883,936
31 Dec 2024	Eirecomposites Teo	TidalHealth - Structural Health Monitoring and analysis of Full-Scale Tidal Turbine Blades · Development of a real-time health monitoring system for tidal energy foils · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€871,106
31 Dec 2024	IERC, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork	INNOV8HEAT: Innovative Novel Optimisation and Validation for Heating Energy Application Technologies · The INNOV8HEAT project is meticulously designed to harness the potential of integrating renewable energy sources with innovative thermal storage solutions, addressing the critical challenges of energy curtailment and efficiency in industrial applications · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€853,692
31 Dec 2024	IERC, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork	BEST-IRE: Battery Electric Bus for Sustainable Transport Initiative in IREland · Evaluation of the battery powered electric bus network in Ireland · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€846,731
31 Dec 2024	Maynooth University	ADFLEX · Development of real-time monitoring to ensure better power system operations for the Irish energy system · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€805,871
31 Dec 2024	Trinity College Dublin	HARMONIC-AI - Harmonic Management with AI for Networks to intelligently enhance EV charging and grid-tied micro-generation at customer sites · Using Artificial Intelligence to enable smart energy management for Ireland · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€749,972
31 Dec 2024	Munster Technological University (MTU)	AgRE-Bio: Optimal integration of renewable energy systems & bioenergy production within the agricultural industry · Determination of a multi-facited rollout of Anaerobic Digestion & its effect on the agri-sector · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€733,128
31 Dec 2024	Dublin City University	Transforming CO2 into formic acid, a liquid organic hydrogen carrier using solar energy (SUN2FA) · Exploration of the conversion of CO2 from formic acid · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€687,326
31 Dec 2024	University of Galway	SHELLWISE – Assessing shellfish health when exposed to subsurface noise and vibration from offshore wind farms · Investigating the effects of offshore wind farm noise on shellfish · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€673,507
31 Dec 2024	South East Technological University (SETU)	CLEERBlade: Cold Spray Leading Edge Erosion Repair for Offshore Wind Turbine Blades · Development of sustainable wind turbine blade repairs in offshore wind conditions · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€666,130
31 Dec 2024	Trinity College Dublin (TCD)	Enhancing Energy Efficiency and Resource Recovery through Multi-Objective Optimisation of Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations (E3R2MO2WWTPO) · Increasing energy efficiency and decreasing environmental impacts for wastewater treatment plants · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€608,178
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	Grant	€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	Grant	€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	Grant	€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	Grant	€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	Grant	€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	Grant	€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	Grant	€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	Grant	€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	Grant	€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	Grant	€249,986
31 Dec 2024	University College Dublin	‘Light’ plastic waste upcycling · Conversion of plastic waste into upcycled materials using sunlight · Status: Ongoing	Grant	€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	Grant	€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	Grant	€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	Grant	€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	Grant	€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	Grant	€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	Grant	€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	Grant	€102,860

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