{"id":808,"date":"2022-02-17T09:29:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T09:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greystonesgreenenergy.ie\/?p=808"},"modified":"2022-02-19T13:19:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T13:19:31","slug":"deep-retrofit-grants-of-over-e25000-to-be-offered-to-householders-via-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greystonesgreenenergy.ie\/blog\/deep-retrofit-grants-of-over-e25000-to-be-offered-to-householders-via-the-irish-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep retrofit grants of over \u20ac25,000 to be offered to householders via The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Public sector grants and investments in private homes can be money very well spent. Deep retrofit do have global, regional, and individual benefit including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Can save householders money in energy bills<\/li><li>Can make a warmer, drier, and less drafty home<\/li><li>Reduces a major stream of GHG emissions associated with heating and powering the home<\/li><li>In some cases significantly reduces harmful particulate emissions in and around the home (especially if home was heated with solid fuels)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even with this new grant aid, deep retrofits still have a significant cost, but this is a really important step. Commonly questions arise as to the uptake if a homeowner still needs to invest \u20ac25K in addition to the grant money to fully fund a proper deep retrofit. Will there also be low-interest loans to support this very large upfront investment? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to our recent <a href=\"https:\/\/greystonesgreenenergy.ie\/energy-master-plan\/3-executive-summary\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"179\">2022 EMP<\/a> the simple payback period is on the longer side from 20-47 years, with the lowest-rated homes prior to retrofit having the fastest payback period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original article on the Irishtimes.com:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/politics\/retrofit-grants-25-000-offered-to-households-to-help-insulate-homes-1.4795335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/politics\/retrofit-grants-25-000-offered-to-households-to-help-insulate-homes-1.4795335<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public sector grants and investments in private homes can be money very well spent. Deep retrofit do have global, regional, and individual benefit including: Can save householders money in energy bills Can make a warmer, drier, and less drafty home Reduces a major stream of GHG emissions associated with heating and powering the home In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greystonesgreenenergy.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greystonesgreenenergy.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greystonesgreenenergy.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greystonesgreenenergy.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greystonesgreenenergy.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greystonesgreenenergy.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greystonesgreenenergy.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greystonesgreenenergy.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greystonesgreenenergy.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greystonesgreenenergy.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}