{"id":222,"date":"2009-02-10T17:23:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T17:23:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"Green_Grants_for_your_Home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"Green Grants for your Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want a warmer home that&rsquo;s less expensive to heat?<\/p>\n<p>There are several schemes available from the Irish Government. One of<br \/>\nthem should suit your needs. The three main schemes&nbsp;<br \/>\nare:<\/p>\n<p>1. Home Energy Saving Scheme (Applications March 2009)<br \/>\n2. Greener Homes Scheme<br \/>\n3. Warmer Homes Scheme<\/p>\n<p>You can find more information on Sustainable Energy Ireland&rsquo;s (SEI) <a href=\"www.sei.ie\" target=\"_self\">website<\/a> or at the links below. SEI&#8217;s dedicated help line is 1850 927 000. You can also send email to hes@sei.ie<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sei.ie\/Grants\/Pilot_Home_Energy_Saving_Scheme\/\" target=\"_self\">Home Energy Saving Scheme<\/a> &#8211; Grants for people on middle incomes<br \/>This provides grants for insulation, improved energy heating systems and controls and surveys to provide you with your home&rsquo;s energy rating<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Roof Insulation &#8211; grants up to &euro;250<br \/>&bull; Wall Insulation -includes either cavity wall, internal dry lining or external insulation, -grants up to &euro;4000<br \/>&bull; Replacement High Efficiency (&gt; 90%) Gas or Oil fired Boilers with Heating Controls Upgrade -up to &euro;750<br \/>&bull; Heating Controls Upgrade -up to &euro;500<br \/>&bull; Building Energy Rating (BER) -you can get a grant for a BER if one is done before and after the works are completed &ndash;&euro;200<\/p>\n<p>Register your interest now with SEI 1850 927 000. The scheme begins in March 2009.<\/p>\n<p>2<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sei.ie\/Grants\/GreenerHomes\/\" target=\"_self\">. Greener Homes Scheme<\/a> &#8211; Grants for people on middle incomes<br \/>This provides grants for new renewable energy heating systems in existing homes<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Solar Heating &ndash; grant up to &euro;1,800<br \/>&nbsp; Solar hot water system and \/ or<br \/>&nbsp; Solar space heating system<br \/>&bull; Heat Pumps&ndash; grant up to &euro;3,500<br \/>&nbsp; Horizontal ground collector<br \/>&nbsp; Vertical ground collector<br \/>&nbsp; Water (well) to water<br \/>&nbsp; Air source<br \/>&bull; Wood Chip or Pellet Stoves &ndash; with or without integral boiler or bulk fuel storage&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; installed &ndash; grant up to &euro;2,500<br \/>&bull; Wood Gasification Boiler &#8211; grant up to &euro;2,000<\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sei.ie\/Grants\/Warmer_Homes_Scheme\/\" target=\"_self\">Warmer Homes Scheme<\/a> -For people on lower incomes<\/p>\n<p>This scheme improves the energy efficiency and comfort conditions of homes occupied by low-income households. Community based organisations carry out the work which includes attic insulation, draught proofing, lagging jackets, energy efficient lighting, cavity wall insulation and energy advice.<\/p>\n<p>In the Dublin area there are two organisations that carry out this work CHIP (T: 01 467 0344), and Energy Action (T: 01 454 5464).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>In addition, a programme of thermal retrofit of local authority housing is being implemented this year by the Department of the Environment and local authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want a warmer home that&rsquo;s less expensive to heat? There are several schemes available from the Irish Government. One of them should suit your needs. The three main schemes&nbsp; are: 1. Home Energy Saving Scheme (Applications March 2009) 2. Greener Homes Scheme 3. Warmer Homes Scheme You can find more information on Sustainable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}