Renewable energy

RDP funding helped convert a disused building into an inspiring renewable energy visitor centre in Feldheim – Germany’s first village to be supplied with 100 % renewable energy.

A company managing publicly-owned forests purchased new machinery to turn forest residues and logging waste into valuable biomass fuel.

A family-owned strawberry farm in Estonia used EAFRD funding to develop the generation of  solar power, enabling the farm to expand and increasing their profits.

Investments in renewable energy helped a pig farm to maintain and increase its competitiveness.

Testing the transferability of landscape management to other Natura 2000 sites.

This multi-million Euro project helped harness geothermal energy to produce heat and power by drilling wells into reservoirs of hot water that are found deep underneath the earth’s surface.

A regional cooperative chain for biomass was established to respond to the increasing demand for woodchip.

LEADER support was used to exploit the potential of using large quantities of waste wood from landscape management as a renewable energy source.

In an area where cattle breeding is predominent, LEADER funding helped explore the potentials of producing biogas from manure produced in the farms.

Setting up a briquette production plant that uses wood dust and energetic willow, shows how a region's natural resources can be used for energy production in an environmentally friendly way.