GALWAY FARMERS SOUGHT FOR ENERGY-CROP NETWORK

Date Published: 31-Jan-2008

Farmers in Galway are being offered the chance to grow energy-crops and join a farmer-led energy supply grid. A Green Energy Service Company, or GESCO, is using energy produced and processed by farmers to supply heat and power to industrial estates and hotels around the country. G-E-S-C-O in the West is hoping to build a national supply chain and is looking for more farmers in Galway to join their regional network.They're holding a series of information meetings for interested farmers in the county starting tonight [thurs jan 31] in Loughrea at 8, in The Meadow Court Hotel.