Balbriggan sec

sustainable energy community

Balbriggan Sustainable Energy Community (SEC) aims to create an energy efficient and resilient community through knowledge sharing and learning, community-led renewable energy and nature-based solutions.

We've recently hired a full-time Communinty Energy Officer, Evan Farren. Say hello and ping Evan anytime to chat.

evan @ balbriggansec.com

Join the movement for energy independence and locally owned energy!

We chose a millwheel for our logo as Balbriggan had the first water-powered loom in Ireland, the energy was used for the local textile factories. Our SEAI Energy Master Plan can be viewed here:

info @ balbriggansec.com

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Knowledge sharing and learning

  • Key messages from the Energy Master Plan are shared via our website, Facebook and Instagram

  • Keep an eye out for our regular drop-in events in Balbriggan Library on home energy saving, solar panels and electric vehicles

  • Please email [email protected] to join the mailing list for our quarterly online newsletter

Community-led renewable energy

  • We received funding from the Fingal Community Climate Action Fund to do energy upgrade work with Balbriggan Meals on Wheels and Balbriggan Football Club. Other projects are a cargo bike locker for Balbriggan Tidy Towns and a biodiversity area on St Peter and Paul's Church grounds.

  • We are collaborating with Codema - Dublin's Energy Agency and Fingal County Council as partner on an EU Funded project focused on the designation of Balbriggan as Fingal's Decarbonising Zone.

  • We are also working through the SEAI Community Enabling Framework resources that support communities to develop their own grid scale renewable energy projects. A feasibility study will inform how the project develops.

Increase awareness of how building retrofits can impact on nature

  • We are developing information and a webinar with Swift Conservation Ireland to raise awareness among the national SEC network of how building retrofits can impact on birds and bats.

Photo: Birdwatch Ireland Paulina Skoczylas

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