RENEWAT (Renewable Energies in European Water Mills) brings together 7 partners from 6 European countries with the aim of sharing knowledge and actions to lead renewable energy projects in existing water mills. 

Europe's rivers host numerous hydraulic structures, and a proper understanding of their management has often been forgotten. Although more and more local project promoters wish to re-activate existing water mills, they endure many administrative barriers before the mill activity can be re-envisaged for micro hydropower production. RENEWAT overall objective is to upskill local and regional actors of the partners territories about water mills repowering, so that this renewable energy is clearly identified and supported in their local and regional policies amongst the renewable energy mix. In this way the project will improve specific policy instruments from different scales, approaches and locations, all together serving a complementary approach and vision about the repowering of existing water mills.

Finally, water mills re-activation can lead to a significant source of local economy and highly qualified jobs with positive impact on the social community. Finally, the revitalisation of ancestral practices can also lead to innovative technological solutions, either for micro hydropower sustainable solutions, or about the way local renewable energy is produced and distributed.

General Project Information:

Program: Interreg Europe

Project ID: 02C0498

Program priority: Greener Europe

Project Specific objective: Renewable Energy

Project type: Classic project

Acronym: RENEWAT

Title: Renewable Energies in European Water Mills

Project duration: 48 months

Project start date: 01.04.2024

Budget: 1,369,155.00 euros

Indicative budget of KSSENA: 187,959.00 euros

Partnership: 9 partners from 8 EU member states

 

LINK: https://www.interregeurope.eu/renewat