Shane Murphy – Sales and Technical Director at Ashgrove Renewables. He is a specialist in home energy upgrades and grants and has worked in this area for 25 years. He will discuss solar Batteries: the good, the bad and the misunderstood. The Cabinet has agreed to a string of new grants to help people replace old heating boilers, install batteries with solar panels and insulate their homes. The measures are aimed at making it easier and more affordable for households and businesses to improve energy efficiency, install renewable energy technologies and switch to cleaner heating systems.
The changes – coming in from next Tuesday, Budget Day – will see the introduction of a grant of €2,000 to help households fund the scrapping of a fossil fuel heating boiler. This applies to houses built before 2021. They will be encouraged to get a heat pump and other renewable heating systems. Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment officials estimate that such a system would save a household €185 a year. In relation to the boiler scrappage scheme, all eligible homeowners with a heat-pump application already in progress will receive an additional boiler scrappage grant of €2,000.
