Available Funding
Speco Sustainability will guide you in identifying the most suitable funding options for your business.
We’re here to guide you through every step of the grant process from application to approval.
Take a look at the different funding opportunities outlined below.
Enterprise Ireland Grants
Sustainability & Decarbonisation
What it Covers: Hiring external environmental experts to execute multi-annual sustainability projects, gain ISO environmental certifications, and implement deep decarbonisation strategies.
Maximum Grant Amount: Up to €50,000 (50% co-funding of eligible costs).
How Many Times a Company Can Apply: Granted on a multi-annual strategic project basis.
Who Should Apply:
- Start-ups
- SMEs
- Large Companies preparing comprehensive environmental strategies
What it Covers: Funds the cost of hiring a sustainability consultant to introduce environmental management systems, circular economy practices, and carbon footprinting.
Maximum Grant Amount: Up to €5,000 (covers 80% of eligible project costs up to €6,250).
How Many Times a Company Can Apply: Maximum of 1 claim per approved grant offer.
Who Should Apply:
- Start-ups
- SMEs
- Large Companies seeking to embed basic environmental systems
What it Covers: Capital grants to decarbonize industrial manufacturing combustion processes, including fuel switching, heat recovery systems, industrial heat pumps, and electric boilers.
Maximum Grant Amount: €20,000 to €1,000,000 per project.
How Many Times a Company Can Apply: Subject to project scale and EU State Aid threshold limits per capital investment cycle.
Who Should Apply:
- Enterprise Ireland Manufacturing Clients
- IDA Ireland Clients
- Údarás na Gaeltachta Clients
What it Covers: Purchasing and installing sub-metering hardware, energy tracking software, and emissions monitoring systems.
Maximum Grant Amount: Co-funded capital grant support (up to 50% of eligible costs).
How Many Times a Company Can Apply: Dependent on facility scale and project milestones.
Who Should Apply:
- Start-ups
- SMEs
- Large Companies with substantial energy demands
What it Covers: Facilitates large-scale environmental protection investments, major energy efficiency upgrades, and renewable energy integration under EU GBER state aid rules.
Maximum Grant Amount: Varies according to company size, location, and applicable EU State Aid intensity caps.
How Many Times a Company Can Apply: Case-by-case strategic application per major capital development.
Who Should Apply:
- SMEs
- Large Companies undergoing major environmental overhauls
Productivity, Lean, Operations & Capability Training
What it Covers: Mid-scale operational productivity projects aimed at driving measurable cost savings and process improvements over several months.
Maximum Grant Amount: Up to €50,000 (50% co-funding).
How Many Times a Company Can Apply: Multiple times as company lean maturity progresses.
Who Should Apply:
- SMEs
- Large Companies focusing on operational excellence
What it Covers: Short advisory assignment introducing continuous improvement, lean principles, waste elimination, and process mapping.
Maximum Grant Amount: Up to €5,000 (covers 80% of eligible project costs up to €6,250).
How Many Times a Company Can Apply: Typically once as an introductory lean support.
Who Should Apply:
- Start-ups
- SMEs
- Large Companies
What it Covers: Large-scale operational transformation projects, including major digital process innovation, plant redesign, and capability upgrades.
Maximum Grant Amount: Up to 50% grant rate on up to €300,000 maximum expenditure for Digital Process Innovation, plus capital asset and training grant aid.
How Many Times a Company Can Apply: Reserved for major organizational transformations.
Who Should Apply:
- SMEs
- Large Companies executing site-wide overhauls
What it Covers: Co-funding the purchase of productive capital machinery, advanced plant equipment, and process automation.
Maximum Grant Amount: Co-funded capital investment grant (against an agreed development plan).
How Many Times a Company Can Apply: Tied to multi-annual capital investment plans.
Who Should Apply:
- Manufacturing SMEs & Internationally Traded Services clients
What it Covers: Non-routine strategic training for management and staff across four drivers (Operations, Leadership, Market Development, Product Innovation).
Maximum Grant Amount: Grant of up to €70,000 per project (up to 50%–70% grant rate on €100,000 maximum eligible expenditure).
How Many Times a Company Can Apply: 1 claim per approved grant offer.
Who Should Apply:
- SMEs
- Large Companies expanding workforce capabilities
What it Covers: Co-funds hiring external strategy consultants to tackle specific strategic or short-term tactical challenges in functions such as organizational development or financial planning.
Maximum Grant Amount: Advisory grant up to €5,000 (covers 80% of eligible project costs up to €6,250).
How Many Times a Company Can Apply: Per approved strategic challenge assignment.
Who Should Apply:
- Start-ups
- SMEs in manufacturing or internationally traded services with 10+ employees
IDA Grants
What it Covers: Medium-scale training project over 12 months. Can cover part of salary costs for a “green project team” (up to €200 per day).
Maximum Grant Amount: IDA Ireland: This grant offers a higher maximum amount of up to €60,000 for eligible projects. The funding rate is up to 50% of the total project costs. For a €120,000 project, the grant would be €60,000, and the net cost to the client would be €60,000.
How Many Times a Company Can Apply: Up to 3 times (for projects that are a “significant step up”).
Who Should Apply: Existing IDA clients exploring sustainability reviews and climate action plans.
GRANT INFORMATIONWhat it Covers: Includes Green Start Grant for audits, Green Plus Grant for extensive projects, and support for large-scale decarbonisation projects.
Maximum Grant Amount: Green Start up to €5,000; Green Plus up to €60,000.
How Many Times a Company Can Apply: Details not specified.
Who Should Apply: Existing IDA Ireland client companies (foreign-owned).
GRANT INFORMATIONOnce IDA has received a Climate Action Plan from the client company, then the company can look at the option of using IDA’s capital supports. Capital grants provide financial support for implementing major renewable and energy efficiency projects. These tend to be large-scale capital intensive projects. The grant application ideally has a complementary mix of projects (e.g. solar panels + heat pumps). These grants are for incentivising clients to invest beyond existing legally binding environmental standards.
For Example:
- Renewable energy technologies e.g. on-site generation such as wind-turbines, solar farms.
- Pioneering projects e.g. on-site battery storage and infrastructure, hydrogen infrastructure.
- Manufacturing equipment that is far more efficient, or can run on zero emissions fuel, or is electric instead of fossil-fuel-powered such as heat pumps.
If you are an IDA Client and wish to apply for sustainable support please contact your IDA Project Executive.
GRANT INFORMATIONÚdarás na Gaeltachta Grants
What it Covers: Medium-scale training project over 12 months. Can cover part of salary costs for a “green project team” (up to €200 per day).
Maximum Grant Amount: The maximum grant amount is €50,000, and projects are funded up to 50% of the total eligible costs. If a project costs €100,000, the grant would be €50,000, and the net cost to the client would be €50,000.
How Many Times a Company Can Apply: Up to 3 times (for projects that are a “significant step up”).
Who Should Apply: Existing or potential clients developing high-level environmental management.
GRANT INFORMATIONWhat it Covers:
- Climate Planning Fund (advisory services).
- Enterprise Emissions Reduction Fund (capital investment in decarbonisation and R&D).
Maximum Grant Amount:
- Climate Planning: €1,800.
- GreenStart: up to €5,000.
- GreenPlus: up to €50,000.
- Strategic Consultancy: up to €35,000.
- Capital Investment: up to €1 million.
- Energy Metering: up to €50,000.
- R&D: up to €250,000.
How Many Times a Company Can Apply: Programs run until 2026; number of applications not specified.
Who Should Apply: Companies in the Gaeltacht region (existing or potential Údarás clients).
GRANT INFORMATIONSEAI Grants
What it Covers: Energy auditor provides technical assessment and recommendations for energy savings.
Maximum Grant Amount: €2,000 paid by SEAI.
How Many Times a Company Can Apply: 1 time for SMEs. Large companies must conduct one every 4 years.
Who Should Apply: Any company seeking an energy-specific audit.
GRANT INFORMATIONWhat it covers:
- A review of your current fleet, including mileage and fuel consumption.
- Recommendations on which routes / vehicles are suitable for electrification.
- A charging plan to support the proposed changes.
- Identification of the charging infrastructure required.
Who the Grant Is For:
- Large industries, SMEs, and semi-state bodies looking to electrify their fleet.
- Organisations that want to decarbonise transport but don’t know where to start.
Grant Amounts:
- Fleets of 5–50 vehicles — up to €4,000.
- Fleets of 51+ vehicles — up to €8,000.
Eligibility:
- Must have a minimum of 5 company vehicles.
- Not open to public sector bodies.
What it Covers: Financial assistance to help businesses and other sectors install solar PV panels to generate electricity on site. This reduces electricity costs, increases security of supply, and enhances sustainability credentials.
Maximum Grant Amount: Grant funding is available for systems up to 1000kWp, with a maximum grant of €162,600. Grant value is based on system size:
- 1kWp – €900
- 2kWp – €1,800
- 3kWp – €2,100
- 4–6kWp – €2,400
- 7–20kWp – €300/kWp
- 21–200kWp – €200/kWp
- 201–1000kWp – €150/kWp
Who Should Apply: Businesses, agricultural sector, public sector bodies, schools, community centres, and non-profit societies installing solar PV.
GRANT INFORMATIONWhat it Covers: Financial support for businesses to move from fossil fuels to renewable heating systems, including:
- Operational tariff for biomass and biogas heating systems, supporting system operation for up to 15 years based on usable heat output.
- Heat pump installation grant: up to 40% of investment in air, ground, or water source heat pumps.
Who Should Apply: Commercial, industrial, agricultural, district heating, public sector, and other non-domestic heat users who can demonstrate:
- Conversion from fossil fuel
- Eligible heat use (space or process)
- Compliance with eco-design standards
- Heating system design according to building regulations and relevant standards
- Use of qualified designers and installers
- Solvency and tax clearance requirements