The Georgios Karaiskakis municipality, like most mountainous regions, are endowed with considerable renewable energy potential. In this paper, an attempt is made to determine its potential and to investigate the reasons and possibilities of its exploitation. The utilization of the available resources could be viewed as an element at the basis of which the development of the region will be enhanced, with primary objective the protection of natural environment but also as an opportunity to stop facing the risk of energy poverty.