Dr. John Upton:

Teagasc has a close working relationship with MTU. Many of the tools that we have developed to help to disseminate our research to farmers have been developed through collaboration with MTU and funded through the SEAI. In particular, the dairy energy optimisation platform is a tool that is based on our research and is available to use for free by farmers and advisers to help to identify the most attractive combination of both efficient and renewable technologies for deployment on farms. Solar energy is embedded within that tool too.