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The built environment accounted for 12.7% of Ireland\u2019s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2017, with Irish homes requiring 7% more energy and emitting 58% more Carbon Dioxide than the EU average. As the SEAI point out in their Residential Roadmap 2050<\/em>, the current housing stock is expected to persist into 2050. As evidenced by Figure 1, most new builds have good energy performance, with the majority of homes built since 2010 boasting A grade Building Energy Ratings (BER), however, older dwellings perform poorly.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1: <\/strong>BER grade by year of Construction<\/p>\n

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Source:<\/strong> Generated by author using BER data obtained June 2019<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Low replacement rates and the relative stasis of the housing stock, suggest that a deep retro fit of existing properties will be required for Ireland to bring building energy performance in line with the rest of Europe and meet 2030 energy efficiency targets. The Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACC) outlined in the Irish Governments 2019 Climate Action Plan (CAP) recognizes the retro-fit of oil boiler homes to B2 BER standard as a cost effective abatement measure. The retro-fit of gas and solid fuel heated homes to B2 standard represent a cost prohibitive, but necessary measure for Ireland to achieve non-ETS and Renewable Energy Source (RES) targets. Indeed, retrofitting forms a large part of the Project Ireland 2040 plan to transition to a low carbon society, with an acknowledgement that an extensive renovation of the building stock will be required to facilitate this. The 2017 Deep Retrofit Pilot scheme, ran by the SEAI, attempted to assess the funding and incentive intricacies of a widespread retrofit program, with a view to rolling out a full program in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1005,"template":"","measure_type":[28,45],"measure_sector":[36],"sub_description":[46,48,93],"main_emission_target":[62,61,67],"policy_focus":[75],"climate_relevance":[86,92],"implementation_status":[97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/policymeasures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/measure\/872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/policymeasures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/measure"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/policymeasures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/measure"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/policymeasures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/policymeasures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"measure_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/policymeasures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/measure_type?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"measure_sector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/policymeasures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/measure_sector?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"sub_description","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/policymeasures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub_description?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"main_emission_target","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/policymeasures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/main_emission_target?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"policy_focus","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/policymeasures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/policy_focus?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"climate_relevance","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/policymeasures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/climate_relevance?post=872"},{"taxonomy":"implementation_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/policymeasures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/implementation_status?post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}