Deep Retrofit

If you own your own home and you are looking to upgrade the energy efficiency of your home to an A-rated home, our Deep Retrofit grant might be for you.

We offer grants to do individual energy upgrades such as insulation grants or heating systems grants, but deep retrofit means getting multiple energy upgrades all at once. All projects must include renewable energy solutions to support the transition away from fossil fuels. There are a wide range of renewable energy systems currently available on the market with the most prominent to date being heat pumps, solar water heating panels and solar photo-voltaic panels. To undergo a deep retrofit, you are looking at an investment of approximately €30,000 or more.

While this is a big undertaking, higher grant support (approximately 50%) exists for deep retrofit to help you achieve a really energy efficient A-rated home. We are offering this support on a limited basis.

To apply for a Deep Retrofit grant, you must contact a Service Providers who will apply on your behalf. We are currently not accepting applications from individual homeowners. We need to learn through the pilot before developing a model to deliver high quality deep retrofit to individual homeowners.

The list below includes service providers who have, or are currently, delivering deep retrofit projects under the Deep Retrofit Pilot programme but does not represent an exhaustive list of Service Providers. The list will be updated by SEAI to include new service providers who become involved in the delivery of deep retrofit projects during the course of the Pilot programme.

The Deep Retrofit grant presents a significant market and investment opportunity for early adopters of deep retrofit. We are currently seeking Service Providers to drive investment in major renovations through the delivery of deep retrofits projects from inception to completion.

Reflecting governments multi-annual commitment of funding, the National Mitigation Plan commits a total of €21.2m between 2017 and 2019 with an additional €5 million in 2019 to support this Deep Retrofit grant. Learnings from this initial programme will inform the large scale roll-out of deep retrofit with an estimated total market value of over €35 billion.

In order to maximise the learnings from the pilot programme and deliver optimal solutions to homeowners as the programme evolves, we are looking for applications with groups of houses, e.g. 5 or more. Organisations such as community groups, energy agencies, building contractors, architectural practices and other organisations with the capacity and ability to deliver can all apply for the pilot programme. Please click on the link below to learn more about the Pilot programme.

Application for the Deep Retrofit Pilot programme may be available to certain service providers of deep retrofit projects. As part of the application process, service providers are required to demonstrate that they have the skills and capacity to deliver deep retrofit projects. SEAI hopes that more service providers will apply for the Deep Retrofit Pilot programme over time.

The list below includes service providers who have, or are currently, delivering deep retrofit projects under the Deep Retrofit Pilot programme. The list will be updated by SEAI to include new service providers who become involved in the delivery of deep retrofit projects during the course of the Pilot programme. The list should not be interpreted as a register of deep retrofit service providers maintained by SEAI, nor as an endorsement by SEAI of any service provider. The choice of the service provider is the responsibility of the homeowner.