Renewable energy

The ‘Climate and Energy Region’ is an integrated awareness raising campaign on climate change, addressed to children, young people, adults, businesses and communities. 

Local renewable energy opportunities generated through knowledge exchange, capacity building and training on sustainable forest management and energy transition.  

A transnational cooperation project to promote DIY solutions for renewable energy production in rural communities.  

Using Rural Development Programme (RDP) support to set up modern poplar plantations in response to the increasing demand from industry for high quality raw materials  

A family farm used investment support to set up a state-of-the-art sheep farm for the production of high-quality sheep milk.  

A major exporting agricultural company in Portugal, used EAFRD support to develop a state-of-the-art innovative, greenhouse production unit.  

Improving the centre of a small community by replacing the roofs of municipal buildings.

Support from the rural development programme was used to buy new machinery and expand the production capacity of a biogas plant.

An investment project that allowed a company to fill the gap in the local supply chain for wood chips in the north-west of Ireland.

An agricultural business used RDP support to improve its capacity to process and store its produce, while producing renewable energy from the sun.