The solar grants in Ireland, explained

The SEAI Solar PV Grant is worth up to €1,800. It is paid at €700 per kWp for the first 2 kWp installed, then €200 for each additional kWp up to 4 kWp. So a 2 kWp system gets €1,400 and a 4 kWp or larger system gets the full €1,800. Since October 2026 there is also a €600 grant for a battery of 5 kWh or more, so panels and a battery together can get €2,400. If you get Fuel Allowance or certain other social welfare payments, the grant can be up to €9,000.

You need to own the home (landlords can apply too), and it has to have been built and occupied before 2025. That cut-off moved from 2021 on 6 October 2026, so a lot of newer houses now qualify. It cannot have had a solar PV grant before. A BER assessment is done after the installation, with no minimum rating, and the work has to be done by an SEAI-registered company, which we are. One thing to watch: you have 8 months from the grant offer to finish, so apply when you are ready to go ahead.

We guide you through it. You apply to SEAI yourself. It is a short online application, and we give you every detail it asks for. We then handle the installer declarations, the ESB Networks notification and the completion documents that release the payment. No work should start before your grant approval is issued, and we make sure it doesn’t.

It depends which scheme you are under. For TAMS, your farm advisor lodges the application and we supply the system specification, quotes and documentation it needs. For the SEAI Non-Domestic Microgen Scheme, the application is made before work starts and we provide the installer detail and the completion documents that release the payment. Either way, no work should start before approval is issued (TAMS approval from the Department of Agriculture, or the SEAI letter of offer), and we make sure it doesn’t.

It depends on the roof and the equipment, which is why we quote from a survey rather than a price list. Domestic solar is zero-rated for VAT, and the SEAI grant (€1,800 for panels, €600 more for a battery) comes back to you after the job. Your quotation names the exact equipment and the exact price, with the payback calculation and its assumptions written down.

For the domestic SEAI grant, the money is normally paid to you by SEAI after the installation is completed and the post-works documentation, including the BER assessment, has been submitted. Your quotation from us shows the full price and the grant separately, so it is clear what you pay and what comes back.

The SEAI Non-Domestic Microgen Scheme supports non-domestic solar installations up to 1000 kWp, with a maximum grant of €325,200. The grant is a fixed amount per kWp that steps down as the system gets bigger. The rates are doubled for applications made between 6 October 2026 and 6 July 2027, and SEAI pays the table figure or 45% of the installed cost, whichever is lower. Businesses, farms, schools, public bodies, sports clubs and community groups can all apply. Batteries are not covered.

Farm solar is supported through the Solar Capital Investment Scheme (SCIS) under TAMS 3, administered by the Department of Agriculture rather than SEAI. It is grant-aided at 60% against a ring-fenced investment ceiling of €90,000, so the maximum grant payable is €54,000. Systems are grant-aided up to 62 kWp, and battery storage is eligible up to a capacity equal to 50% of the array’s rated size in kWp.

Not both for yourself. The grant follows whoever owns the system, so you cannot claim it on an array someone else has funded. Under a Power Purchase Agreement the provider owns the system and claims the SEAI Non-Domestic Microgen Scheme, worth up to €325,200, and that value should show up in the unit rate you are quoted. It is one reason buying outright is usually the stronger option where the capital is available: you keep the grant, the system itself and all of the electricity. Ask any PPA provider, ourselves included, to show you how the grant is carried through into the rate.

No. One scheme per project. Solar Capital Investment Scheme (SCIS) under TAMS 3 funding cannot be combined with the SEAI Non-Domestic Microgen Scheme for the same investment, so the choice has to be made before you apply. TAMS is grant-aided at 60% up to a maximum of €54,000 and supports systems to 62 kWp; the SEAI scheme runs to 1000 kWp with a maximum of €325,200, which matters if the holding needs a larger array than TAMS covers. We work out which is worth more on your specific project before anything is submitted.