Re-Alliance have been working with School of the Earth Nea Guinea on the ‘Wind Mobile’ project, an action research project aiming to develop low-cost, locally manufactured micro wind turbines. The turbines can be used for cost-effective mobile phone charging services for refugees and IDPs within camps and settlements.
We are looking for interested groups within the Re-Alliance network to create, together with our designer, a micro wind turbine design for their local context. This will involve having several online calls to get feedback on where the group works and what it does and to assess what materials, tools and skills are available locally. Following the calls, an initial small wind turbine design will be produced by our designer, which will be shared with the group to review. In the longer term, we can look into the possibility of building the system locally if this seems feasible.
If you would like to work with our designer to create a micro wind turbine design, please email Kostas at School of the Earth: info@neaguinea.org. Please include in your email the name and location of your organisation and tell us a bit about your work and why you are interested in micro wind turbines.
Locally manufactured wind-electric systems can empower communities to produce their own electricity. By emphasizing the use of local resources, both in terms of materials and tools and skills and expertise, both people and place are empowered. Turbines can be built by recycling and up-cycling waste materials and by collaborating with international technological and manufacturing networks, based on open-source knowledge exchanges. In this context, the ‘Wind Mobile’ project aims to develop a set of micro wind turbine designs for wind-electric mobile phone charging solutions within camps and settlements.
Micro wind turbine designs have being developed as part of the ‘Wind Mobile’ project in collaboration with KOC Bridges to Peace https://www.bridgestopeace.org/ in Côte d'Ivoire, with Fablab Winam https://www.fablabwinam.org/ in Kenya, with Community Creativity For Development - CC4D https://cc4d.tech/ in the Rhino Refugee Camp in Uganda, and with the Habibi.Works https://habibi.works/ makerspace near the Katsikas refugee camp in Ioannina, Greece.
The ‘Wind Mobile’’ project is supported by Re-Alliance and is developed within the School of the Earth Nea Guinea ‘Energy for a Common Future’ project, with the scientific support of the Rural Electrification Research Group (RurERG) of SmartRue (Smart Grids Research Unit ECE NTUA), and in collaboration with IEEE Greece Section SIGHT.
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