Welcome to the new WindEmpowerment web site.
Founding members at Dakar Polytechnic in February 2011
WindEmpowerment is an association for the development of locally built small wind turbines for sustainable rural electrification.
If you wish to join, you can click on ‘Participate‘ to register and gain access to the members’ area menu and the ability to comment on pages, or use the Forum. Membership is free for now, but we do plan to introduce voluntary fees soon.
If you have news of events, or of an organisation that shares our mission, then please get in touch by leaving a comment or using the ‘contact us‘ button above. This web site depends on your participation to connect people working in this area.
Questions about how this site works should be sent to the webmaster (Scroll to the bottom of the contact page for a webmaster contact form.)
WINDMISSION Co. is a small Danish family enterprise having designed and sold small turbines and generators. For many years, however, we have been consulting large scale industry, and our web site has been stalling. Now age is catching up, and … Continue reading →
Locally manufactured open source hardware small wind turbines for sustainable rural electrification presented at the 3rd World Summit for Small Wind, 15-16 March 2012, Husum, Germany
Over the last three months, the Israeli Civil Administration has issued demolition orders to six renewable energy systems in South Mount Hebron. More than 500 men, women, and children depend exclusively on these solar panels and wind turbines for light, … Continue reading →
Die Entwicklung von Kleinwindanlagen als Open Source Hardware ermöglicht die Bündelung des Wissens von Ingenieuren und Technikern aus der ganzen Welt. Eine im Jahr 2011 gegründete Organisation trägt zur Koordinierung der einzelnen Aktivitäten bei.
Ici/Here is a presentation of our last project in Tchad with the university. We build a 700 W. The turbine will be in N’djamena. The university plan to make another turbine. Sorry for the non french speaking. We haven’t got … Continue reading →
The London to Uganda Wind Turbine Project is a vision of combining secondary education with practical solutions to a schools power needs. The partnership between Copland Community School in London and Apala Secondary school in Alebtong district, northern Uganda is … Continue reading →
Hugh Piggott’s open source design has proved to be somewhat of a phenomenon with EWB-UK members, with turbines being constructed by branches in Warwick, Cardiff, Sheffield, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Bath and Bristol. The experience of building a wind turbine is a fantastic educational … Continue reading →
Please find attached the 2011 survey / questionnaire / encuesta report and the raw data. Cheers, Mathias (Contains 2 attachments.)
El diciembre pasado, el Ministerio de Energía y Minas (MEM), Soluciones Prácticas (antes ITDG), Green Empowerment , Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy y la Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI) convocaron el Simposio Internacional de Energía Eólica de Pequeña Escala … Continue reading →
The last couple of months we get more and more questions from people of countries bordering Tanzania, like Kenya, Uganda and Malawi. Sometimes the question is about a training in the local town of the interested person or NGO. In … Continue reading →
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