As part of a German Government programme, our cooperative is twinned with another cooperative in Pfaffenhofen in Bavaria.

While visiting the town on an ideas-sharing trip in September 2019, we observed a range of projects including a community-owned wind turbine, a biogas producing farm, a biomass fuelled eco-brewery, a large biomass facility, the local electricity and utility company, and historic electricity-producing water wheel. We also explored how the Pfaffenhofen cooperative grew to its current size.

We are looking forward to the return visit of the Pfaffenhofen cooperative to Galway in June 2020.