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Energy Master Plans

Apr 4, 2025

An Energy Master Plan (EMP) helps communities understand their energy demand and supply. Each EMP is unique to the community. 

We deliver the highest quality and effective Energy Master Plans (EMP) for  all our client communities. They are hands on and finely tailored to the specifics of the community and involve effective on the ground research informed by years of communications and socio-economic research successes. Energy Co-ops Ireland brings its proven highly successful strategic approach and methods to bear on delivering a top-class EMPs.

We are deeply embedded in the community sustainability sector in Ireland with many years of fruitful partnerships with key leading community groups: from the three leading Decarbonization Zones in Galway and Mayo (Comharchumann Fuinnimh Oileáin Árainn, Galway Westside, and Mulranny Futures) to smaller communities with their own specific needs and aims, such as Túr Mhic Éadaigh, Mayo and Castlepollard, Westmeath.

We are confident that our track record of underpinning successful growth in the sustainable community groups we have supported over the past decades, helps ensure that communites can continue their sustainability journey with a clear and actionable strategy.

For more information on the SEAI’s Energy Master Plan initiative, please go to this link

Examples of our completed Energy Master Plans

The Downs, County Westmeath

The Downs SEC encompasses the electoral areas of The Downs, Coralstown, Killucan and Porterstown. It is a level 2 SEC

Galway Energy Co-operative SEC

The SEC is a combination of Urban and Sub-urban settlements making up part of Galway City in the West of Ireland. It has a population 52,073 and is a level 4 SEC

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Inishturk SEC

The SEC is situated on a small island off the coast of Mayo. It comproses of just 21 permanently occupied homes. It is a level 1 SEC dependent on agriculture, tourism and fishing.

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We have also conducted Energy Master Plans for: Achill Island, and Castlepollard, and are currently engaged by Milltownpass SEC and Balla SEC in producing their own bespoke EMPs