{"id":1683,"date":"2026-07-14T15:59:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/energycloud.org\/ireland\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:18:47","slug":"energycloud-pre-budget-submission-for-budget-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energycloud.org\/ireland\/energycloud-pre-budget-submission-for-budget-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"EnergyCloud Pre Budget Submission for Budget 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\t<section class=\"page-section multi-content__block \">\n\t\t<div class=\"container\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content__header full-column\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0If not now, then when?\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content__body full-column\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">EnergyCloud today published its Pre Budget Submission for Budget 2027 in October with the following key recommendations:<\/div>\n<ul data-editing-info=\"{&quot;applyListStyleFromLevel&quot;:true}\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" role=\"presentation\">Establish Ireland\u2019s first\u00a0<b>Targeted Surplus Renewable Energy Credits\u00a0<\/b>for homes experiencing energy poverty<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" role=\"presentation\">Build a\u00a0<b>National Fleet of Smart, Flexible Energy Assets<\/b>\u00a0that can absorb energy that would otherwise be wasted<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Ensure that<b>\u00a0<\/b>all social homes built and all future retrofits should have\u00a0<b>Demand Flexible heating and storage devices\u00a0<\/b>installed<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">As a country, we have over \u20ac600 million of wasted renewable wind energy per annum in Ireland and according to the ESRI for a cost of \u20ac375 million per annum we can help 550,000 homes in Ireland exit energy poverty, significantly impacting the affordability crisis for our citizens and reducing our reliance on fossil fuels.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">In EnergyCloud, we believe that it is vital in Budget 2027 that we begin to deliver on the commitments in the Programme for Government to use surplus renewable energy, that would otherwise be wasted, to help those in energy poverty.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><a href=\"http:\/\/energycloud.org\/ireland\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/EnergyCloud-Pre-Budget-Submission-July-2026.pdf\">Read Full Submission: EnergyCloud Pre Budget Submission July 2026<\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"content__footer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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