The Warmer Homes Scheme - Low Income Housing Programme

Are you ready to avail of the Home Energy Savings Scheme (HES) -

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Get a Building Energy Rating (Before BER) carried out to establish where on the scale of “A” to “G” your dwelling falls, “A” been the most energy efficient ”G” been the least efficient. Home Energy Savings (HES) Grants of €200 are available towards the before and after BER. All Building Enery Rating Certficitations (BER Certs) are accompanied by an Advisory Report. This Advisory Report includes a list of suggested improvements such as heating system efficiency, heating controls, insulation in walls and attic, ventilation and lighting. These improvements range from no cost, low cost to high cost and have a pay back time scale of 6 months to 5 years. So don’t miss out on this opportunity to make your home more comfortable and save you money on your heating bills.

When iBERcon carry out a building energy rating (BER) on your home the BER assessor will sit down with you and explain the findings of the building energy rating assessment (BER assessment) and help you to plan your project to achieve the most cost efficient way to improve the energy efficiency of your home. Then you can get quotations from a number of building contractors all contractors must be registered with SEI and be ready to fill in the Home Energy Savings (HES) grant forms when the Home Energy Saving scheme comes on stream.

When the work has been carried out on your home making it more energy efficient then iBERcon can carry out a final building energy rating (BER) for your home that will take into account the energy improvements that you have made. We will then issue you with a final Building Energy Rating Certificate (BER cert) which will be valid for ten years from date of issue.

For a price for the Before and After BER certification - Contact Us: info@ibercon.ie

The type of work you can get a Home Energy Savings (HES) grant for includes:

Home Energy Savings (HES) Grants will be provided to homeowners who invest in building energy efficiency (BER) improvements in the following area:

  1. Roof Insulation - for a better building energy rating
  2. Wall Insulation - for a better building energy rating
  3. Replacement High Efficiency (> 90%) Gas or Oil fired Boilers with Heating Controls Upgrade*
  4. Heating Controls Upgrade* - for a better building energy rating
  5. Building Energy Rating (BER) - you can get a Home Energy Savings (HES) grant for a Building Energy Rating Certificate (BER Cert) if one is done before and after the works are completed

* Minimum requirement of: 2 zones (space and water) with 7 day programmer (time and temperature) control and boiler interlock, time and temperature control of electric immersion heater and either 1 more zone control or 3 TRV's.

Grants Available through the Home Energy Savings (HES) Scheme

Home Energy Savings (HES) Grants are fixed for each type of measure as indicated in the table below. Home Energy Grant approval must be in place before any purchase of materials or commencement of measures undertaken. Home Energy Savings (HES) Grants are paid after the measures are completed and the contractor has been paid by the homeowner. In the instance where the cost of the work (vat inclusive) is less than the fixed grant amount, the actual cost will be reimbursed.

* Please note that while you are entitled to apply for each Measure there is a minimum requirement that the grant amount in the first application must be €500 or greater. The BER grant cannot form part of this €500 amount.

How to apply Home Energy Savings (HES) Grants?

The Home Energy savings (HES) scheme has only been launched/announced now in order to allow interested contractors to apply for registration. Once there are sufficient registered building contractors available to the scheme, there will be a further announcement regarding householder applications.

So, at the present moment the Home Energy savings (HES) scheme is not open for applications from homeowners. Please keep a close eye out for future notices and check back regularly to ensure you are aware of when the Home Energy savings scheme (HES) opens for applications.

If you wish to register your interest in the Home Energy savings (HES) scheme and be contacted when it opens for applications, then simply click hes@sei.ie or phone 1850 927000

In the meantime, you could be looking around your house to identify areas which could improve your building energy efficiency. You may also like to engage iBERcon a building energy rating (BER) assessor to perform a building energy rating of your home with an accompanying Advisory Report, which will help identify areas that could improve your level of comfort along with reducing future heating bills.

Non qualification for a Home Energy Saving (HES) scheme grant

Depending on the scale or type of works being undertaken, the HES grant may not necessarily be appropriate for all homeowners. Homeowners will not qualify for a grant:

  1. If your first Home Energy Saving (HES) grant application would be for less than €500. So if you are only intending to do attic insulation (€250) or blown cavity wall insulation (€400) on their own then you will not qualify for a Home Energy Saving (HES) grant
  2. If you are only replacing your existing boiler with a typical efficiency boiler (<90% efficiency) then you will not qualify for a Home Energy Saving (HES) grant
  3. If you decide to simply replace your boiler but not upgrade the heating controls to the minimum prescribed standard then you will not qualify for a Home Energy Saving (HES) grant
  4. If you wish to get a Home Energy Saving (HES) grant for a Building Energy Rating (BER) then you must undertake a Building Energy Rating (BER) both before and after undertaking the appropriate Home Energy Saving (HES) grant aided measures