The Community Energy Grant Scheme is available to community and other organisations wishing to undertake energy upgrades as part of a community project.
The Grant scheme, managed and operated by SEAI, supports cross-sectoral and community-oriented partnership approaches that deliver energy savings to a range of building types including public, commercial and community buildings with a particular focus on using the projects to deliver home retrofits.
The Scheme provides funding for a range of improvements to existing buildings and facilities. These include the installation of insulation, heat pump systems, replacement windows/doors, solar Photo-Voltaic technology, energy-efficient flood lighting to sports facilities, and energy monitors, as well as other energy upgrades.
Under the Community Energy Grant Scheme Guidelines for 2022, lighting projects for non-residential buildings, including sports clubs, can be supported under the Scheme when they are part of a suite of energy efficiency upgrade measures to retrofit a building, for example fabric upgrades or heating measures.