Renewable energy

Good Practice - Project | 04 avr 2017

Setting up a renewable energy visitor centre in Feldheim – Germany

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.

Good Practice - Project | 08 jan 2017

Upgrading a forestry company’s machinery in order to produce biomass in Czech Republic

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

Good Practice - Project | 02 jan 2017

Laastu farm - Generating solar power on a strawberry farm

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.

Good Practice - Project | 25 sept 2016

Environment and Economics

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

Good Practice - Project | 21 sept 2016

Conservation of natural heritage - Biodiversity and wood fuel

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

Good Practice - Project | 26 août 2016

Green Well Westland

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.

Good Practice - Project | 26 juil 2016

Biomassalland

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

Good Practice - Project | 26 juil 2016

Using residual wood from landscape management

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

Good Practice - Project | 25 juil 2016

Studying and promoting biogas production in the territory of the LAG ‘Pays des Condruses’

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

Good Practice - Project | 25 juil 2016

Briquette production at ECODOMANI

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.