Business Briefing on the Energy Efficiency Grant

Tuesday 20th June 12:30pm - 2pm, at MERITS, Naas including a networking lunch.

The Energy Efficiency Grant to aid small businesses on their sustainability journey has been announced by Simon Coveney, T.D. Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

We are hosting an in-person briefing to review this new support and how to access it as small businesses seek to invest in technologies and equipment to make their businesses more energy efficient. 

The grant will be available to companies who through participation in the Green for Micro, GreenStart or SEAI Energy Audit programmes have identified the technology and equipment need and benefits. 

This grant scheme will reduce the impact of small businesses on the environment and may help them to reduce costs over time to enable them to become more competitive. 

Minister Coveney said; “The Energy Efficiency Grant is another significant step in helping our small businesses to become more sustainable and to make a significant contribution to reducing their energy output.  Everyone must make changes as we aim to become a more sustainable country and small businesses are no different.  This grant will make it more feasible for small businesses to engage in this process and hopefully set them on a more sustainable path.  The Local Enterprise Office’s Green for Micro programme has enabled many small companies to take those first steps and now with the Energy Efficiency Grant they can continue that journey.”

Our speaker

Gillian Peters is CEO of Pragmatica, an organisation who are an outsourced sustainability officer for the SME market and provide specialist consultancy services and technology for Carbon Footprint measurement, reduction and communication.

Prior to working in Pragmatica, Gillian worked with the professional accountancy body, CPA Ireland, and as a result, Gillian has extensive experience with the SME Sector as CPA Ireland members advise over 100,000 SMEs in Ireland. It was during her time in CPA while working with SMEs and on an Organisational ESG Strategy that Gillian first became interested in Sustainability in businesses and that found that sometimes small changes can make a big difference.