On 19th October the local (Kendal, Cumbria) National Farmers Union hosted a discussion on IcaRE4Farms. Cumbria is the county that produces the second-largest volume of milk in England. Read More
On October 7th 2022, GillesBaujean, from our partner, the Chamber of Agriculture attended the Vegetal Villages event in Noyant-Villages, France. Read More
On the 17th and 18th of September 2022, CCS had a stand at a Dutch fair aimed at agricultural innovations and developments in the lovely town of Someren. The fair is called ‘’Agrarische Dagen Someren’’. Read More
Jérôme Dutertre is a farmer (veal and pigs) in Mayenne, France. To reduce his energy bills and carbon footprint, he installed a FENGTECH solar thermal energy system on his farm in 2018. Mr Duterte needs hot water to feed the calves every morning and evening, and heating this water represented 70% of the energy required on his farm. Read an article about the positive impact of the solar thermal energy system after 3 years. In the article, Mr Dutertre says "It was the price of gas that motivated me to install the system. When I see the prices increasing now, I think it was a good decision.” Read More
A scientific paper titled "Modelling of “Water-in-glass” Solar Water Heaters Installation" written by researchers from the University of South Brittany has been published online. Read More
Our 5th consortium meeting took place in Deventer, the Netherlands on 21st and 22nd June. The event was a hybrid in-person and virtual meeting. Read More
FengTech and the University of South Brittany represented the ICaRE4Farms project at the Scientific Consortium TR2I in Saint-Malo on the 9th & 10th of June 2022. On Friday the 10th Liqun Feng presented the Icare4farms project, the Fengtech system and its application on the French pilot site and details of the energy-saving information from the pilot site. Read More
On the 30th of May, members of 3 of the ICaRE4Farms partners gave an online presentation to Irish Government officials about the Next Generation of Solar Thermal Energy systems. Read More