Home Energy Saving Grants for Insulation
Grants for Roof and Wall Insulation:
The Home Energy Saving (HES) scheme has been launched this year in Ireland to provide assistance to homeowners in improving the energy efficiency of their home in order to reduce energy use and costs and greenhouse gas emissions. It is a national scheme and thus open to all owners of existing houses. The scheme is administered by Sustainable Energy Ireland and its agents.
Homeowners can’t apply for the grants yet – they have to wait until there are sufficient registered contractors available. Contractors are invited to register to be used for the scheme.
The scheme will involve the payment of fixed grants.
How Much are the Grants Available?
Roof insulation €250 Euro
Cavity wall insulation €400 Euro
Internal Dry Liing €2500
External Wall Insulation €2500
High Efficiency Gas or Oil fired Boiler with Heating Controls Upgrade €700
Heating Controls Upgrade €500
and heating controls. There is also a grant for households who choose to get a Building Energy Rating (BER) assessment Before and After the works are completed.
Conditions: Grant Approval must be in place prior to any purchase of materials or commencement of measures undertaken. You may apply several times, however the grant value of your first application must be €500 or more . Note: The BER assessment grant cannot form part of the €500 amount.
* All works must be carried out by a contractor registered with Sustainable Energy Ireland for this particular scheme.
The €100 million scheme will, it is expected, employ 4,000 people and benefit some 50,000 homes in 2009. It is estimates that about oOne million of the houses in Ireland require need some retrofitting to achieve energy savings.
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