ELREN Press

2006-11-23 - Spain, School talks --

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HOY Regional Newspaper - Thursday, 23 November 2006

ADERCO organises a series of talks on renewable energies in the schools of the county

The association for the Rural Development of the County of Olivenza (ADERCO) has organised a series of conferences on the future of renewable energies in Extremadura, which will be held in the high schools within the county of Olivenza.

These talks will be put forward by the technicians of the Regional Agency of the Energy, a public body which counts with the best experts.

The activity falls within the ELREN project, which is being managed by the Association ADERCO in collaboration with partners from Holland, Ireland and Italy. Apart from the talks it also includes several training sessions for politicians, municipal technicians and entrepreneurs, as well as the edition of a training manual on energy saving and new sources for energy, which will be handed for free throughout the municipalities of the region.

The organisation of an international closing conference on renewable energies is scheduled for the next year, which will give an end to the activities that are being carried out within this cooperation project and will be held in Olivenza. It is necessary to highlight that ELREN is within the framework of the Leader+ European Initiative and counts with the backing from the European Union, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Commission of Rural Development of the Regional Government

Raising awareness

According to Gregorio Torres Gallego, manager of ADERCO, “the conferences are designed to raise awareness the awareness of the youth regarding the importance of the preservation of our natural resources and the suppression of the pollutant sources of energy, and is going to make a particular stress on the energy saving and, above all, on the increasing possibilities that the renewable energies have to become the main suppliers of the society in the future”. The present situation of these sources of energy will be analyzed, as well as the future of the photovoltaic plants, the wind and hydro electrical mills, the anaerobic digesters, etc.

The talks will concentrate on present and future situation and will be held in Olivenza, Villanueva del Fresno, Barcarrota and Valverde de Leganés.

N.B. Caption under photo: The wind is one of the sources with better perspectives in Extremadura.

2007-01-13 - Spain, Technical workshop on RE --

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HOY regional Newspaper - Saturday 13 January 2007

ADERCO organises a Technical Worshop on Renewable Energies

The Association for the Rural Development of the County of Olivenza (ADERCO) has organized a technical workshop on the 16th of January on the analysis of the present situation of the different sources for renewable energies in our region, as well as on the possibilities of development at a medium and long term.
This event falls within the international cooperation project ELREN, where entities from Ireland, Holland and

Italy

also participate. The project counts with a budget of almost half a million euros and is co-financed with European Funds by the Initiative LEADER+.
The aim of the workshop is to inform those socio-economic agents with more influence onto the rural areas on the implantation of the systems of production of renewable energies. The different target groups will be separated (technicians, businessmen and politicians). In this way they will count with detailed information of the new projects and regulations which are going to rule the instalment of windmills, solar plants, heat plans based on biomass, etc. The Regional Energy Agency (AGENEX) and the company Entrepreneur Initiative of Extremadura will be co-operating in the organization of the workshop.
It will start at 9.30 a.m. with the handling of documentation. The opening speech will be offered by Ramón Rocha Maqueda, president of ADERCO and major of Olivenza. The workshop will last the whole day. Among the speakers we may find experts such as Martín Cobos Rodríguez, who will speak on solar energy, Carmen Pérez Atanet, on biomass and energy efficiency on the primary sector, and Fernando López Rodríguez, director of AGENEX, who will analyse the future of renewable energies in our region.
Those interested in attending the event may contact the ADERCO staff by dialling 924492803.

2007-02 - Spain, RE assessment --

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RURAL DEVELOPMENT national magazine - February 2007 (abstract, Spanish only)

Situación Actual de las Energías Renovables

Article on RE situation in Spain, highlighting also role of ADERCO in RE and ELREN transnational cooperation initiative.

2007-06-06 - Spain, ELREN website --

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EL PERIODICO EXTREMADURA - Regional magazine - 4 June 2007 (Spanish only)

Olivenza crea una página web junto con Holanda, Irlanda e Italia

News on the creation of ELREN website.

2007-06-30 - Italy, ELREN@Terrafutura --

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http://www.terrafutura.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=144&Itemid=41

ENERGY: ELREN project at Terra Futura | ENERGIA: il progetto ELREN a Terra Futura

Activities carried out by ELREN partnership at TERRAFUTURA Exhibition & International Meeting on Best Practices in Sustainable Development held in Florence on 18-20 May 2007. Summary presentation as shown in the Terrafutura website (Italian only).