Earlier this year, Government approved a package of supports as part of the delivery of Ireland’s residential retrofit programme. These measures are aimed at making it easier and more affordable for homeowners to undertake home energy upgrades, for warmer, healthier and more comfortable homes, with lower energy bills.
Included in these measures is the establishment of the new National Home Energy Upgrade Scheme, offering increased grant levels of up to 50% of the cost of a typical B2 home energy upgrade with a heat pump (up from the current level of 30-35%).
Technical assessments are carried out prior to heat pump system installation by SEAI-registered Technical Advisers. It would be expected that this assessment should include an assessment of the ventilation heat losses in the dwelling based on certain characteristics, e.g. number of chimneys, wall vents etc. Technical advisers are permitted to publish pre-works and post-works Building Energy Ratings (BERs).