EVs, solar panels and heat pumps concentrated in affluent areas of Ireland – The Irish Times

https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2026/03/13/green-divide-emerges-with-evs-solar-panels-and-heat-pumps-concentrated-in-affluent-areas/

#IEpol #SEAI #Environmentalism #Mastodaoine

Ireland's energy-related emissions reached their lowest level for 30 years in 2023, falling by 8.3%, new data from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has found. #energy #emissions #ireland #seai

Read more: https://sustainabilityonline.net/?p=7045

[01:38] Calls to slow energy use in carbon intensive sectors

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) is calling for energy use in carbon intensive sectors to be strategically slowed but the deployment of more renewable energy as well as energy efficiency technologies and practices to be urgently speeded up.

https://www.rte.ie/news/environment/2024/1211/1485787-calls-to-slow-energy-use-in-carbon-intensive-sectors/

#TheSustainableEnergyAuthorityofIreland #SEAI

[04:00 PM] Government supported 25,750 home energy upgrades in first half of 2024

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) today published details on the 25,750 home energy upgrades supported through Government funded grant schemes in the first half of 2024. This represents an increase of 18% on the number of upgrades for the same period last year and shows the ongoing surge in home retrofitting. Government expenditure […]

https://irishtechnews.ie/government-supported-25750-home-energy-upgrades/

#TheSustainableEnergyAuthorityofIreland #SEAI #today #25,750 #thefirsthalfof2024 #18% #thesameperiodlastyear

I filled in the solar PV grant form on the SEAI website this afternoon. I tried doing it this morning, but there was a “permission denied” error on their dashboard, which stopped things working. There had been a warning that they were doing updates overnight, so I figured it was probably teething problems with the update.

Hours later, upon submitting the grant form, I saw a “Paused on debugger statement” popup. Clicking play on it continued the process, and it all appears to work fine now. One wonders what happened to just submitting a form and processing everything on the server and refreshing the page?

Anyone know someone on the SEAI dev team who can remove that debugger command? The joys of developing debugging on a live site.

https://odd.blog/2024/05/31/debug-code-left-on-the-seai-website/

#code #Ireland #SEAI

Six synthetic reports - four by the #IEA and two by #SEAI - on behavioural change and energy use: potential impact, obstacles, the role of policy makers, and how to best communicate to citizens.

https://blog.experientia.com/behavioural-change-to-reduce-energy-use/

#Behaviouralscience #Behaviouralchange #Sustainability #NetZero

@JMcE

Paging #MastoDaoine 👆🏼

Does anyone know?

#SEAI