by Urmas Mägi

The organisation was founded on 23rd of January this year on Estonia's biggest island Saaremaa (Osel) by people who care for clean environment and can't stand the wasting of energy that was common in the former Soviet Union.

The exsisting energy crisis in Estonia has started a debate about the use/useless and possibilities of renewable energy and although all energy experts from westerns countries emphasise on energy savings and using renewable energy the deciders have done nothing yet. So the organisation has started its activity.

The aim is to start environmentally safe energy production, based on wind, sun, energy forests and biomass ,on Estonian islands. It is a non-profit non-governmental organization uniting single persons, entreprises and organizations on equal basis. Although SREO is young the members have been envolved in renewable energy activities for decades. Jüri Ling and Endel Nöu from Muhu island have built themselves (without any governmental support) several windturbines that up of Saaremaa local energy planning has been started.

We are very interested in cooperation with similar organozations worldwide, especially with those situated on islands.

The preliminary investigations show that at least 30% of energy used today can be saved at very small expenses, other 30% by restructuring agriculture and industry, and most of the remaining can be replaced with renewable energy. And as the yearly consumption of fossile fuels that are imported cost in world prices over 26 million dollars (this year), there seems to be also an economic side. So anyone anywhere who is interested in mutual action is welcome to contact on address:

Urmas Magi

Saarte Renewable Energy organisation PO. Box103 Kihelkonna

EE3334 Saaremaa, Estonia