Improvement of the environmental performance of latxo sheep farms, through energy efficiency, power generation and reduction of the environmental footprint
Project
Goals
- Improve the environmental performance of latxo sheep farms, through energy efficiency, power generation and reduction of the environmental footprint.
- Highlight the development of products of differentiated quality, with a quantified and improved environmental footprint and with minimal energy expenditure
- Contribute from the latxo sheep sector to the generation of clean energies that contribute to achieving an increasingly sustainable energy system in terms of competitiveness, security of supply and low carbon
Activities
Evaluate the sustainability of DO Idiazabal cheese-making cheese factories, from the milk of their herd, using the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) methodology, with special emphasis on their energy consumption, with the aim of improving energy efficiency and power generation at points of consumption, thus reducing the environmental footprint
• Pilot Project in Kerixara sll (Oleta - Álava)
• Pilot Project in Etxezuri ez (Aretxabaleta - Gipuzkoa)
• Pilot Project in Neiker (Arkaute - Álava)
Results
Generate benefits in the environmental, social and economic sphere:
- 5% reduction in the Environmental Footprint of latxo sheep farms and cheese factories
- Generate a framework to advance energy sovereignty in the Latxo sheep sector
- 20% reduction in energy costs in latxo sheep farms and cheese factories
Project developed within the framework of aid for cooperation provided for in Decree 43/2017, corresponding to the 2019 financial year, and through which the Basque Government, within the framework of the OSOA program (Basque Country's Rural Development Program 2014-2020), and the community fund FEADER, support the project,
