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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 →

In this RIWIK newsletter 5 we present you the developments of the past few months. Feel free to send this newsletter to other people who might be interested, or send us their contact details and we will send them a … Continue reading →

Hi all, sorry for delivering so late but here is additional material on the previous posted news article about Rio+20 activities: (http://windempowerment.org/news/windempowerment-at-rio-20/) A recorded presentation about the activities and preparation: RioPPT rev01 from piet Willem Chevalier on Vimeo. An impression … Continue reading →

Connie-Ann, a specialist in lightning protection on wind turbines has given a Webinar. The moderator Rad Haghi has also recorded it and can be seen together with the slides and detailed descriptions for each slide on: http://windempowerment.org/ldocuments/lightning-protection-for-small-wind-turbines-webinar/ Happy listening and … Continue reading →

Desarrollo de Capacidades en Aerogeneración de Pequeña Escala Objetivo: Apoyar a ONGs y microempresas en la industria de pequeños aerogeneradores en América Latina a identificar y realizar actividades que contribuyan a fortalecer sus capacidades y así mejorar la calidad y … Continue reading →

Hello, my name is Nick Warren, and I am contacting you as the Social Director of WindAid, a social entrepreneurship project in Peru. By locally building wind turbines, we provide clean and affordable electricity for communities in Peru who have … Continue reading →

My name is Connie-Ann Bracht, Electrical Engineer for High Voltage Technology, experienced in lightning protection and earthing of wind turbine applications. From now on, WindEmpowerment offers Knowledge Sharing Events via ‘Webinar’ and I am happy to invite you for the … Continue reading →

Overview : Individual Consultant Procurement Notice Reference: ICPN-2012-05-DPRK (re-advertisement) Deadline to submit your offer: before 11:59 pm on November 25, 2012. Post title: International Individual Consultant for the “Technical Design Optimization” of locally made Small Wind Energy Systems in the … Continue reading →

WindEmpowerment had its first Webinar today, through GoToWebinar. You can download the full video file following this link: http://bluenetwork.org/FileSpace/Public/WindEmpowerment/WindEmpowerment%20-%20Webinar%20and%20Website%20Training%209-25-12%2010.03%20AM.mov You can also find the minute of the meeting on this link (in three languages: english, french and spanish): Webinar 25Sept2012 … Continue reading →

The first WindEmpowerment members’ web conference took place on August 30th. You can read, attached to this post, the meeting minute in three languages: english, french and spanish. La premiére conférence web des membres de WindEmpowerment a eu lieu le … Continue reading →

Piet Chevalier (i-love-windpower Mali and Siemens wind power), Gaël Cesa (Tripalium) and Mathias Craig (blueEnergy) attended the Rio+20 UN Sustainable Development Conference in Rio de Janero, Brazil, from June 16-20 on behalf of WindEmpowerment. We were invited by Siemens AG … Continue reading →

USAID Vocational Training and Education for Clean Energy Appalachian State University will be working with Green Empowerment and Arizona State University for the next 5 years on a project funded by the USAID. The overall scope of the mission is … Continue reading →

Green Empowerment, a renewable energy non-profit, has worked with community-based electrification projects in Nicaragua, through local partners, for the past 15 years. Recently, we’ve expanded into wind turbine projects through partnerships with blueEnergy, and others. WISIONS, an organization out of … Continue reading →

The calendar shows details of events and courses around the world.  Most of these are courses in small wind turbine construction.  Click the links below for listings of courses being run in various countries: Otherpower (in the USA) Tripalium (in … Continue reading →

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 →

For more than a year now, I-love-Windpower Tanzania has been busy building wind turbines in rural areas of Tanzania. And with great success! 9 turbines have been installed over this past last year, generating electricity for little schools and hospitals. … Continue reading →

The Small Wind Working Group of the Energy for All Partnership, convened by the Korea Wind Energy Industry Association (KWEIA), will be organizing an international workshop on Small Wind Power for Off-Grid Electrification in Asian Developing Countries on 21-23 February … Continue reading →

1200mm diameter 12VDC small wind turbine construction course in Athens The Nea Guinea collective organizes a 6 day seminar on small wind turbine (SWT) construction for off-grid systems. The seminar will include a practical section: the construction of the 1200 … Continue reading →

Con el objetivo de difundir los avances en el aprovechamiento de la energía eólica en el Perú y su potencial para la generación de electricidad aislada y conectada a la red, el Ministerio de Energía y Minas (MEM); Green Empowerment; … Continue reading →

See this page for an updated list of 29 organisations that comprise the association ‘WindEmpowerment’.  Please get in touch about any errors or omissions there!

Mathias writes: “Attached you will find a pdf describing the inaugural Executive Board of WindEmpowerment.  Thanks to everyone who volunteered to participate, this is a great step forward.   In the future, as our capacities grow, I look forward to … Continue reading →

Jimmy (site webmaster) writes: “We are using open source software and it,s all free so sometimes it just don’t work the way we want :) “Putting your location on a map in your profile. When you are logged in click … Continue reading →

There is a new forum discussion thread here for the purpose of allowing you to write a brief introduction so that people can get to know each other.  For example put your name and location so that you are more … Continue reading →

I have received a couple of papers for publication on this site and have added a technical guide of my own, and put them on a new page called PAPERS that you can find on the header menu too. Thanks … Continue reading →

Development, Modelling and Future Directions September 17-19, 2012 Location The Symposium will take place in the Beijing

Here is a list of member organisations from the Dakar conference and I have added some names of organisations that I have just invited.  This is a work in progress and I plan to invite more soon.  See also the … Continue reading →

I have started a new topic in the forum inviting discussion of membership fees.  Click on the link for the Forum in the header and join the discussion if you have stuff to say!

This is one of many events listed in the calendar. Collective workshop for the construction of an axial flux small wind turbine Part II: Blade and furling system construction As part of a final year thesis in the Electrical Energy … Continue reading →

This site has facilities for sharing documents, and for collaborative work on documents.  Any logged-in participant can access the documents under the ‘logged in menu’ on the left hand side. If you have questions about how this all works then … Continue reading →

Robin Lovelace writes: “Hi Hugh (and others), “Here’s a link to another wind power presentation I recorded to day at Sheffield: http://www.youtube.com/user/RobinLovelace?feature=mhsn#p/c/7FFC9EC8DE77E751/7/1-cMx2WGccs  <NOTE FROM HUGH : THIS SERIES OF VIDEOS CAN BE FOUND ON THE VIDEO PAGE : SEE HEADER … Continue reading →

This site had 206 visits yesterday.  There are now 27 participants.  We are adding more details of what is going on around the world, day by day. We would welcome any comments, feedback, suggestions and contributions.  Thanks!

See the organisations menu on the left (low down).  We are working hard to get a good list of potential member organisations on this list.  Check your entry.  Let us know of any changes you need, or if you need … Continue reading →

Jimmy at Eirbyte has put a few new features including a forum, and we have begun to fill the map and calendar with useful content.

On 26th August 2011 a Facebook page was created for WindEmpowerment.

6th September 2011 There is a vacancy at I Love Windpower – Tanzania for a student (M.Sc. internship)on the subject of developing a wind map of Tanzania. As long as no suitable candidate has been found, the vacancy will be … Continue reading →