EnergyCloud Northern Ireland welcomes publication of Warm Healthy Homes Strategy by Minister Gordon Lyons 

Statement by Patrick Keatley, CEO, EnergyCloud Northern Ireland

“The launch of the Warm Healthy Homes Strategy is an important and welcome recognition by the Executive that fuel poverty in Northern Ireland is not a marginal issue, but a deep, structural problem affecting health, dignity and wellbeing for far too many households.

At a time when so many families are living in fuel poverty, it is right that government is setting out a long-term, cross-departmental response that treats warm, healthy homes as a social and public health priority rather than a short-term crisis to be managed.

What is particularly significant about this strategy is its emphasis on whole-house outcomes, collaboration, and lived experience. These principles align closely with EnergyCloud Northern Ireland’s work to ensure that the benefits of the energy transition are felt first by those under the greatest financial and energy stress.

Northern Ireland is already experiencing increasing levels of surplus renewable electricity at certain times. Today, much of that clean energy is simply wasted, while households struggle with high bills and cold homes. EnergyCloud exists to address that contradiction, by safely and fairly directing surplus renewable energy to support vulnerable households, without distorting markets or creating new burdens for the system.

The Warm Healthy Homes Strategy creates a strong policy context for innovative, system-level solutions that sit alongside traditional energy efficiency measures. If we are serious about tackling fuel poverty at scale, we must combine fabric upgrades and heating improvements with smarter use of the energy we already produce.

EnergyCloud Northern Ireland looks forward to working constructively with the Department for Communities, other departments, housing providers, system operators and community partners to help translate this strategy into practical, measurable benefit for households across Northern Ireland.”