An energy audit is a structured, site-specific assessment of how your business uses electricity, gas, and heat. A Registered Energy Auditor visits your premises, analyses your billing data, and inspects your significant energy-using equipment to build a precise picture of your current consumption.
The result is a written report that pinpoints inefficiencies, ranks improvement opportunities by payback period, and sets out the grants available to fund the work — giving you a clear, costed roadmap from day one.
The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland's Support Scheme for Energy Audits (SSEA) provides a €2,000 voucher to eligible SMEs — making a professional energy audit very low cost or free.
SMEs registered in the Republic of Ireland that are tax-compliant and spend at least €10,000 per year on energy (excluding transport) are eligible — provided they have not previously received an SSEA voucher. Very large energy users already obligated under SI 426 are not eligible for this particular grant.
We will give you screenshots of every step in the SEAI on-line process.
We will then come to you to conduct the site visit and write up the report.
Your audit report maps out which improvements to prioritise and which additional grants (EXEED, BEUS, LEO) can fund the capital works.
Beyond the SSEA, larger capital projects may qualify for the EXEED Grant (up to 40% of capital costs), the Business Energy Upgrades Scheme (BEUS), the Support Scheme for Renewable Heat (SSRH), or Enterprise Ireland / LEO grants such as GreenStart and GreenPlus.
Every sector has its own energy fingerprint. Our auditors are experienced across manufacturing, food production, hospitality, retail and the wider business market.
Large motor drives, compressed air systems, steam boilers and process heating are typically the biggest opportunities. Our IS 399 and SI 426 audits address all of these with a structured energy savings register.
Refrigeration, steam cooking, vacuum cooling, compressed air and cold storage are examined in detail. We have audited large food processing facilities and identified savings running to hundreds of thousands of euro per year.
Heating systems, kitchen equipment, laundry, air handling and guest-area controls all feature in a hotel energy study. We also advise on sub-metering strategies required for CSRD compliance.
Lighting, HVAC, refrigeration and building fabric are typically the focus for retail and commercial premises. The SSEA voucher is well suited to this sector.
Gas cooking, bar refrigeration, heating and hot water are examined with a focus on practical, fast-payback improvements — solar PV, induction cooking and sub-metering feature regularly.
If your annual energy spend exceeds €10,000, you are likely to benefit from an audit — and you may qualify for the SEAI €2,000 SSEA voucher to offset the cost.
Every audit is different, but the savings are real. Here are four examples from recent work carried out by our SEAI-registered auditor, Fergus Wheatley.
A full SSEA energy audit was carried out at this busy tavern and function venue. The audit identified nine practical improvement measures spanning heating, solar, metering and building fabric.
Grants available: SEAI Non-domestic Microgen, Building Fabric Grant, LEO Energy Efficiency Grant
An IS 399 Energy Efficient Design Management audit of a 24-hour, 5-day-a-week animal feed manufacturing facility consuming 6 million kWh of electricity and 480,000 litres of LPG annually.
The audit also identified an opportunity to recover heat from warm process air to pre-heat boiler feed water.
An SI 426-compliant energy audit of a food processing plant using 6 GWh of energy per year (2 GWh electricity, 4 GWh gas). Some inherited steam equipment was found to be significantly below modern efficiency standards.
The audit sets out a grant-first approach: EXEED (up to 40% capital) + energy credit grants from suppliers, structured to fund the major works
A comprehensive energy balance study of a four-star town-centre hotel. The hotel's energy cost per room was €4,600 per year — on the mid-to-low end for hotels, partly due to an already well-upgraded building fabric and a committed energy-aware staff team.
Our audits follow a structured process that balances rigour with practicality — you get a report you can act on, not one that sits on a shelf.
We collect 12–24 months of electricity and gas bills, understand your operating hours and sector, and identify the main energy-using systems on site.
Our SEAI-registered auditor visits your premises, walks through all significant energy-using equipment, and gathers the data needed to benchmark your performance.
We model your energy balance from first principles, quantify each saving opportunity, calculate paybacks, and set out the grant funding available for each project.
We walk you through the findings, prioritise the actions that make most sense for your business, and advise on how to structure grant applications to maximise your return.
We are not just energy auditors — we are energy market specialists. That means your audit comes with procurement and hedging context that most audit providers can't offer.
Our lead auditor, Fergus Wheatley (B.Sc. Engineering, MIEI, CEM), is a SEAI-registered energy auditor qualified to carry out SSEA, IS 399, and SI 426 audits — covering SMEs through to large industrial sites.
Because we are energy procurement specialists as well as auditors, we can show you what price you are paying for each unit of energy — and whether you are buying it well — as part of the same engagement.
Every audit recommendation comes with a clear view of available grant support. We have direct experience of the SEAI SSEA, EXEED and energy credit grant programmes, and we will help you structure your applications.
Tell us a little about your business and energy use. We'll confirm whether you qualify for the SEAI €2,000 voucher and outline the next steps.