SME Energy Credits
Electric Ireland’s Energy Credits Programme is just another simple idea to make your business better. As your energy partner, we can offer you real, valuable support by rewarding your business for being energy efficient.
Benefits of Energy Credits Programme
Save with an Energy Rebate
Earn an energy rebate off your Electric Ireland bill by submitting Energy Efficiency projects.
Reduce consumption
Achieve up to 25% consumption reduction by undertaking projects such as retrofit lighting, heating or refrigeration
SME Energy Efficiency Rebate
Electric Ireland SME customers can claim a rebate for an energy efficiency project completed in the last 12 months.
Use your preferred contractor
You are not required to use designated suppliers; you can work with a contractor of your choice for energy efficiency projects.
Case Study
Customer Summary
One of Electric Ireland’s loyal customer’s recently completed an energy retrofit of one of their city centre retail outlets.
This customer engaged with Electric Ireland and sought advice on refrigeration, deli equipment and lighting.
Customer Benefits
Having completed some of the recommended actions, the customer has a brighter, more efficient shop and has reduced running cost by almost 50%.
They were able to avail of a bonus from Electric Ireland to reduce their total investment by 20%.
Frequently Asked Questions
An Energy Efficiency project can be on a small or a large scale. For example, a typical lighting project, such as replacing fluorescent tubes with LED lamps, might cost a business €10,000. The projected energy savings on this would be €4,000 / 25,000kWhs per year plus additional maintenance/servicing savings, as LED bulbs have extremely long lives and low failure rates.
Electric Ireland can then submit the project to SEAI on behalf of our customer. Once this is approved by the SEAI, we will give our customer an energy rebate. In the example above, we gave our customer a €1,750 deduction on their energy bill, which helped reduce the payback down to approx. two years.
For example, a typical lighting project, replacing fluorescent tubes with LED lamps, might cost a business 10,000 Euros in total, with projected energy savings of 25,000 kWhs/4,000 Euros per year (plus additional maintenance/servicing savings as LED bulbs have extremely long lives and low failure rates). Electric Ireland can submit that project to SEAI on the customer’s behalf and, once approved by SEAI, give the customer a bonus of 1,750 Euros. This would reduce the payback to around 2 years.
Yes, we don't have any restrictions and you can use your own contractors and suppliers for energy efficient technologies.
If you’ve already completed the work in the last 12 months, as a loyal customer of Electric Ireland we’ll work with you to still claim your bonus. Just fill out the form below and we’ll be in touch to process your project.
Need Help?
If you need any guidance or advice on your energy efficiency project, please email us
energycredits@esb.ie