THE INISHOWEN ENERGY PROJECT

The COMPARES project seeks mainly to address the information gap on energy efficiency and renewable energy between existing Government policies and programmes - such as grant schemes - and energy users on the ground.

It aims to feed out information on saving money through energy efficiency and on using renewable energy sources. We also want to feed information back to the Government on the real obstacles people face in making the changes needed to reduce the amount of energy they use, or in using renewable energy sources, like wind, solar and biomass: the main sources available in Donegal at present.

The project is targeted at the tourism and leisure industry as part of the development of Inishowen as a Green Tourism destination, and liaises with the farming sector on e.g. the provision of renewable energy sources such as wood chip, but it also aims to make information more accessible to the wider public.

It’s a European “enercy’regio” energy project led from Inishowen by IRDL (Inishowen Rural Development Ltd), in partnership with Sweden, Germany and Crete. The Inishowen project is being co-ordinated on behalf of IRDL by Inis Communications.