Heat pump grant tracker for Dublin and Ireland
How many Irish homes have installed a heat pump with an SEAI grant, how the Greater Dublin Area compares, and what you can claim today. Built on official SEAI and CSO data.
SEAI data to 31 October 2026 · Next update December 2026
Heat pump installations by year with SEAI grants
Heat pumps installed in existing Irish homes with SEAI support, across all home energy upgrade schemes. The 2026 bar covers January to October only.
*2026 partial year, shown with a dashed outline. Total to date: 22,894 heat pumps. Source: SEAI.
Greater Dublin against the national rate
Grant aided heat pumps per 1,000 occupied homes. All four Greater Dublin counties rank in the bottom seven of Ireland's 26 counties, but in 2026 Dublin and Wicklow are close to the national pace.
Dublin: 4,962 grant aided heat pumps, 9.6 per 1,000 homes, ranked 20th of 26 counties. National rate: 12.5.
2026 so far: 1,100 grant aided heat pumps in Dublin, against 1,068 in all of 2025.
Homes with a heat pump by council area
Households using an air source or ground source heat pump per 1,000 households, Census 2022. This counts every heat pump, including new builds, so it shows where heat pumps already are rather than where grants went. SEAI publishes grant data by county only.
Dublin City has the lowest share in the region: 12 homes in 1,000, a third of the national level. Apartments and older terraced housing explain part of the gap, and they are also where air to air systems often fit best.
Source: CSO Census of Population 2022, Profile 2 Housing in Ireland.
Progress to the 2030 target
The Climate Action Plan targets 400,000 heat pumps in existing homes by 2030.
Heating and cooling
One system for winter heat and summer cooling
An air to air heat pump works like a split air conditioner run in reverse. It heats rooms in winter, cools them in summer, and qualifies for an SEAI grant of up to €7,500. It does not heat water, so most homes keep a separate hot water system.
SEAI does not publish air conditioner installation figures, so this tracker counts grant aided heat pumps only.
| Winter | Heats rooms |
|---|---|
| Summer | Cools rooms |
| Hot water | Not included |
| SEAI grant | Up to €7,500, any home type |
What you can claim
Maximum SEAI heat pump system grants by system and home type. The grant can never exceed the total cost of the works.
| System | House | Apartment |
|---|---|---|
| Air to water | €14,500 | €11,500 |
| Ground source to water | €14,500 | €11,500 |
| Exhaust air to water | €14,500 | €11,500 |
| Water to water | €14,500 | €11,500 |
| Air to air (heating and cooling) | €7,500 | €7,500 |
| Technical assessment | €200 | €200 |
How the €14,500 adds up
Heat pump unit (€4,500 for apartments)
Central heating upgrades such as radiators or underfloor heating, where needed (€1,000 for apartments)
Renewable Heat Bonus for replacing an oil, gas, solid fuel or electric storage system
Boiler scrappage top up, with the same eligibility as the Renewable Heat Bonus
The bonus and the scrappage top up apply only when the heat pump replaces an oil, gas, solid fuel or electric storage system. For an apartment the parts add up to €11,500.
Are you eligible?
- Your home was built and occupied before 2021 and has an MPRN.
- Homes built before 2007 need a technical assessment, unless a valid BER shows a Heat Loss Indicator of 2.3 or lower.
- The work is done by an SEAI registered contractor.
- You have grant approval before any work starts.
- Works, post works BER and paperwork are completed within eight months of the offer.
- Payment arrives 4 to 6 weeks after SEAI receives your forms.
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Imported data snapshot: 31 October 2026. Figures need confirmation against the official dashboard before publication.
SEAI retrofit statistics ↗CSO Census 2022 ↗SEAI grant amounts ↗
- Grant aided installations: SEAI, Statistics for National Home Retrofit Programmes, heat pumps installed, all home energy upgrade schemes, data to 31 October 2026. Includes 18 installations from 2017.
- Rates per 1,000 homes: CSO Census 2022 occupied dwellings (1,836,728 nationally; Dublin's four councils combined: 518,490).
- Homes with a heat pump by council area: CSO Census 2022, households using air source or ground source heat pumps.
- Grant values: SEAI heat pump system grant page, checked October 2026.
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