• Energy Upgrade Grants

    SmartPower manages the process of obtaining and drawing down grants/energy credits for Energy Upgrades

  • Power Market Experts

    SmartPower will ensure you get the lowest energy rates in the Market

  • Sub-Metering for Energy Credits

    SmartPower provides a cloud based sub-metering system, with reports for ISO 50001 and energy credits
    (We also can interface to most existing systems and meters)

  • Power and Gas Trading

    Hedge forward energy prices - directly with Wholesale Markets / Power Stations (bypassing Supplier Margins)

Energy Audits

- Large Enterprises

Smart Power specialises in delivering SEAI-compliant energy audits under the Energy Audit Scheme (EAS), as mandated by the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED SI599) and S.I. No. 426/2014. This mandatory scheme applies to large enterprises meeting any of the following criteria:

  • 250 or more employees
  • Annual turnover > €50 million and balance sheet total > €43 million
  • Public bodies with buildings > 500m² or annual energy spend > €35,000

With extensive experience across sectors such as manufacturing, warehousing, data centres, large retail, hotels, and leisure facilities, we ensure full regulatory compliance while uncovering significant energy-saving opportunities and progressing towards net-zero targets.

Our audits not only meet SEAI's Minimum Criteria but routinely identify cost-effective efficiency improvements—often delivering savings of €25,000 or more, far exceeding the cost of the audit.

FREE Energy Audits

- Small & Medium Enterprises

SmartPower also specialises in providing SEAI-funded energy audits for SMEs, helping to cut energy costs and improve efficiency. For most SMEs, the Support scheme for energy audits (SSEA) voucher fully covers the audit, meaning there is no cost to your business.

Through the SSEA scheme, we have supported a wide range of organisations, including pubs, cafes, restaurants, small hotels, community centers, language schools, sports clubs, and retail units. Our audits not only help identify smarter energy use and savings on energy bills but also unlock grant funding for energy upgrades.

These energy audits benchmark your energy use against industry peers, quantifying potential savings. Often, simple, low-cost solutions result in thousands of euros saved annually — and SmartPower will show you exactly where to begin.

Energy Efficiency Design

We are qualified to act as the Energy Efficiency Design Expert (EED Expert) on projects using the IS 399 Energy Efficiency Design protocol. The IS 399 standard establishes Energy Efficient Design (EED) as a management system complimenting ISO 9001 and ISO 50001. It provides companies with an innovative and sustainable strategy for delivering energy, environmental, quality and competitiveness objectives.

Many public sector tenders are now specifying EED as the methodology.

We welcome being part of a project consortium for large tenders/ projects.

Non-Domestic BER

A Building Energy Rating (BER) and advisory report must be provided by the property owner to potential buyers or tenants upon construction, sale, or rental. The BER serves two primary purposes:

Informing Prospects: It offers clear insights into the building's energy efficiency to help buyers or tenants make informed decisions.

Encouraging Upgrades: It incentivises builders, developers, landlords, and sellers to enhance a building's energy performance by publicly recognizing higher standards.

The BER must include an Advisory Report outlining cost-effective measures to improve energy efficiency. Importantly, neither sellers nor buyers are legally required to implement these recommendations, though they serve as guidance for potential enhancements.

SmartPower are now registered to carry out Non-Domestic BER Certifications.

IPMVP

We are certified International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol (IPMVP) professionals, which allows us to develop energy baselines and calculate energy savings to a recognised international standard. This allows us to write energy saving reports that are used to calculate and agree energy credit payments from obligated parties and support payouts from Utility and Energy providers.

Energy Efficiency Assistance Grants

There are a number of good energy efficiency assistance grants available including BEC (Better Energy Community) and EXEED (Excellence in Energy Efficiency Design). Typically, these grants are available up to a 30% capital investment level. In addition, it is also possible to get energy credit grants on top which are based on kWh savings achieved. SmartPower has run many grant programs with SEAI and can advise on the best approach to secure grant assistance for projects.


 

Market Models

SmartPower has developed a proprietary forward price model that we use to actively trade DAM & Balancing market prices with greater accuracy and confidence. Access to the model output is available on a subscription basis.

We also review & advise on PPA contracts using our forward market pricing tool.

 

Procurement Group

SmartPower has a procurement group which negotiates cheaper electricity and gas prices for clients. We monitor market developments to ensure clients always get the most competitive prices in the market. Our buying strategy favours the low-cost floating tariff most of the time ­ this is essentially the power station price with a small management fee for the supplier - but we take advantage of dips in the market when they occasionally occur to lock in at very good prices.

We keep clients informed on an on-going basis via our monthly newsletter and direct contact/meetings depending on client preference.

Our History

Fergus founded SmartPower some 15 years ago. His background is in control systems engineering related to large energy projects. Graduating in 1991, Fergus spent a number of years in the Middle East, China and Germany involved in project management and commissioning activities. In Ireland, Fergus worked at Huntstown Power in charge of the development of the power station control systems. In 2006 Fergus branched out into the emerging renewable energy field and the current SmartPower set up developed from this.

Peter started his career as an Industrial Chemist graduating as a Chartered Chemist from the Royal Society of Chemistry in London. He then worked as an engineer for American multinationals (Hewlett Packard, Intel, Seagate) making semiconductor computer chips. He also spent some years trading currencies and oil & gas markets. His current role at SmartPower is business development including the commercial and project management of projects.

Over the last few years SmartPower has grown its client list rapidly with many household names such as St. Vincent´s Private Hospital, AIB, Keelings, Galway Clinic, Brown Thomas, Quinn Group, AgroMerchants and Radisson Blu Hotel Group among its clients.

Clients

- Current & Past

Hotels

Dalata Group

Radisson Blu Group

MHL Group

Killarney Park

Castleknock Hotel

Windward Management

Farnham Estates

Agriculture

Brett Brothers

Southern Milling

Drinagh

Multinationals

Jabil

Zoetis

IBM

Americold

CGI Group

Manufacturing

ECC timber

Carroll Joinery

Taylor Made Glass

Limerick Blow Moulding

Quinn Group

Shabra

Data Centres

CIX Cork Internet Exchange

Retail

Dunnes Stores

Brown Thomas Group

Charlestown Shopping Centre

Healthcare

Mater Private

Galway Clinic

St.Vincent's Private Hospital

Beacon Hospital

The Team

Fergus Wheatley

Fergus Wheatley

Engineering Director

086 3807914

fergus.wheatley@smartpower.ie

Peter Brennan

Peter Brennan

Managing Director

086 8402190

peter.brennan@smartpower.ie

Ailis Maisey

Ailís Maisey

Project Administrator

01 5843670

ailis@smartpower.ie