About Us

Our mission is to create solutions to divert surplus renewable energy – which would otherwise be wasted – to Irish homes, with a primary focus on those in fuel poverty.

Fuel poverty impacts over 550,000 households every day in Ireland, yet since 2018 according to EirGrid, well over 5000 GWh of zero carbon energy from wind generation alone was dispatched down. There is an opportunity to use this energy in social housing homes and help reduce the impact of fuel poverty.

EnergyCloud Ireland is a not-for-profit social enterprise, limited by guarantee and supported by EirGrid, ESB, Wind Energy Ireland, Climote, SSE Airtricity and Clúid Housing, seeks to use this energy to power social housing homes and reduce fuel poverty.

We are surrounded by vast natural resources on the island of Ireland and working together we can reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, while at the same time improving the lives of those who live in consistent fuel poverty across Ireland. As a country with a focus on sustainable energy production and that is committed to implementing Ireland’s Climate Action Plan, we believe EnergyCloud Ireland has the opportunity to put Ireland into a leadership position in creating solutions for surplus energy rather than simply switching off wind turbines and solar panels.

To date the organisation has been volunteer led and the process is underway to register as a charity in Ireland.

EnergyCloud Ireland exists first and foremost to reduce renewable energy wastage – currently running at an estimate of over €250 million per annum – and instead divert it for social good to help the estimated 550,000 households living in fuel poverty in Ireland.

We do this by redistributing surplus energy from wind and solar renewable generators to fuel poverty citizens via partnerships between utilities, Local Authorities, housing associations & charity partners. This surplus energy would otherwise be curtailed.

We develop innovative and practical solutions that can be activated at a small scale in communities but scaled nationally and globally. These solutions have the potential to address critical issues in the national clean energy system of the future including constraint, flexibility and resilience.

We are a social enterprise and aim to create solutions for community and environmental benefit that are financially sustainable.

Every year very significant volumes of renewable energy are wasted in Ireland. Since 2018 according to EirGrid, well over 5000 GWh of zero carbon energy from wind generation alone was dispatched down. This happened because there are periods when we create more renewable energy than our grid can handle, leading to curtailment.

There is an opportunity to capture some of this surplus renewable energy and redistribute it to citizens in Ireland who are living in fuel poverty. This technology solution could also provide a model whereby excess renewable energy, which would otherwise be curtailed, could be diverted into all homes in Ireland, helping to displace our use of fossil fuels, potentially address localised constraint issues, and achieve our national climate change goals.

As a country with a focus on sustainable energy production and that is committed to implementing Ireland’s Climate Action Plan, we believe EnergyCloud Ireland has the opportunity to put Ireland into a leadership position in creating solutions for surplus renewable energy rather than simply switching off wind turbines and solar panels which is what happens during periods of very high energy production.

We also believe that there is an opportunity to share the solutions we develop with an international community to engage global action.