Case Studies

Renewable energy options

Clonakilty Energy Roadmap

The Clonakilty Energy Roadmap is a detailed study and report for this community of 4,500 people to demonstrate how Clonakilty could become carbon neutral by 2020 with a payback period of less than five years using conventional renewable energy technologies. Although the study is primarily about community-scale renewable energy projects, it provides an overall sustainable energy strategy which encompasses energy demand reduction and individual renewable energy systems. The study identified a surplus of local renewable energy resources equivalent to ten times the amount of energy used in 2010.