ENERGY & BUILDINGS

ENERGY EFFICIENCY & RENEWABLES

E6 Comply with obligations for local authorities set under S.I. No. 426/2014

E7 Display Energy Certificates for SDCC's public buildings

In the next 5 years Architects, County Architect Compliant with S.I. No. 426/2014

Update: Preliminary Energy Audits were completed for SDCC Buildings. Full Energy Audits were carried out by Energy Solutions on Clondalkin and Tallaght Leisure Centres to progress Energy Performance Contracts. Additional, detailed Energy Audit are required for County Hall and Clondalkin Offices. SDCC will extend Energy Solutions scope of works to include County Hall and Clondalkin Offices. It is anticipated that these will be part completed as part of SDCC’s ISO 50001 certification procedure.

In the next 5 years Codema, Architects No. of D.E.C.s for Council buildings

Update: Display energy certificates (DEC) are required to be updated annually for public buildings and those occupied by public authorities which have a total useful area greater than 250m2 and provide a public service to a large number of people and are therefore frequently visited by those people. All DECs for relevant buildings in South Dublin County Council have been updated for 2022 and published. Relevant Buildings are: County Hall, Tallaght Clondalkin Civic Office, Round Tower Visitors Centre, Libraries, Community Centres, Tallaght Stadium, Leisure Centres (Tallaght & Clondalkin)

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E8 Annual Monitoring and Reporting to SEAI

In the next 5 years

Codema SDCC’s energy data uploaded to SEAI M&R system

Update: All of the required information has been uploaded to the Monitoring And Reporting (M&R) system for 2022. The deadline for uploads was the 29th of May. The uploads included all of the MPRNs, GPRNs, fuel consumption data and travel data. Data uploads in 2022 revealed a number of public lighting MPRNs that had not previously been identified on the reporting system. 94 MPRNs Public Lighting accounts were uploaded in April, of which two were deemed to be in the charge of TII and the remainder were new. It was later realised that some of the 92 accounts were legacy accounts belonging to SDCC but were not recorded in the M&R System. This had a retrospective negative impact on the overall energy performance of SDCC.

The connection year of the accounts was sought so that CoDEMA could re-evaluate the consumption to the baseline and minimise the impact in the energy performance. SDCC provided the connection year of a number of accounts, and the changes made were:

- 45 accounts were changed to be attributable back to their connection year

- 2 accounts were changed to “not valid” since 2006 as they belong to TII

- For the 47 accounts where no connection year was provided, 2014 was used as the connection year. The M&R result were revised downwards as a result of the 94 MPRNs which should have been identified prior to 2022. Information entered on the M&R up to and including the 2020 data was locked in at the end of last year’s reporting cycle, so for 2019 and 2020 the M&R records do not display the revised figures. The actual corrected figures for these years are listed below (as taken from this year’s M&R detailed energy data report):

2019: 30.3%

2020: 40.4%

2021: 39.5%

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