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WindEmpowerment is an association for the development of locally built small wind turbines for sustainable rural electrification.

We want you to contribute to this international knowledge sharing community in the language that you speak. Using Google Translate, you can access all of the content and we invite you to respond in your native language.

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WindEmpowerment es una asociación para promover y desarrollar la fabricación local de pequeños aerogeneradores para la electrificación rural sostenible.

 Queremos que contribuyas a esta comunidad internacional de intercambio de conocimientos, en tu idioma. Con el uso de Google Translate, puedes acceder a todo el contenido. Te invitamos a responder en tu idioma nativo.

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WindEmpowerment est une association ayant pour but le développement de la construction locale de petites éoliennes afin de participer à l’électrification rurale durable.

Nous voulons vous faire participer à cette communauté internationale de partage des connaissances dans la langue que vous parlez. En Utilisant un outil comme Google Translate, vous pouvez accéder à tout le contenu et répondre dans votre langue maternelle.

Recent News

Last sunday we installed a Hugh Piggott 2.4m rotor diameter, 48V on the testfield of Schoondijke (picture below, second on the right). It is grid connected via a Windyboy 1100LV and has a LDR as protection.   The installation itself was … Continue reading →

As we all know, Hugh has an incredible amount of experience with small wind turbines. His story of moving over to a remote peninsula in Northwest Scotland in the mid-70s and the challenges he overcome to bring electricity to this … Continue reading →

I’m sure every member of Wind Empowerment  has some amazing photos to share with the world – here’s one way to do it: http://www.ewea.org/news/detail/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=2034&cHash=773abff4e96b319b531c9021c8594539 Deadline is 5th May!

“We are hiring at least one more graduate engineering trainee in the short term. They’ll be coming in behind a good half dozen who who are working through a sequence, some of whom now have almost three years with us … Continue reading →

Way back in August we were given the simple task of finding out whether there was a market for small wind turbines in Nicaragua. Turns out that of all the words in the dictionary, “simple” was probably the least appropriate! During … Continue reading →

This survey is addressed to users, constructors and designers of locally manufactured small wind turbines (SWT) and it is part of the work conducted by the Rural Electrification Research Group in the Electrical Energy systems laboratory of the National Technical … Continue reading →

Hi all, I have updated the (R&D corner). The R&D homepage has now an overview of submitted technical proposals and their status. Everybody can submit new technical proposals, please do not hesitate to do so. The status of the proposal can be: … Continue reading →

Almira Brahim (April 2012) – has done a three month internship in Tanzania to analyse the performance of installed Piggott wind turbines by ILWP-Tanzania and Serengeti Windpower and propose a new design of maintenance process for these turbines. The emphasis … Continue reading →

Here attached is a news update about the progress that we have had in Mali with the windpower project in 2012. It has been a very rough year with the unexpected de-stabilization of the country. Summarised in one word for … Continue reading →

by Jon Sumanik-Leary I’m a PhD student at the University of Sheffield in the UK and despite the terrible weather we have on our rainy little island, living here does have one distinct advantage over all the sun-baked locations that … Continue reading →