Date of completion:
1 Feb 2025
Mobile Wind Power
Community designed micro-wind turbines for camps and settlements.
School of the Earth's Wind Mobile project is trialling the development of mobile wind turbines to provide sustainable, decentralised energy solutions for camps and displaced communities, seeking to integrate renewable energy into humanitarian and community resilience efforts.
The project is developing small-scale, mobile wind turbines that can be easily manufactured using locally available materials or tech waste, and that can be adapted to different environmental conditions. Designs were co-developed with Fab Labs, several community makerspaces, and refugee-led innovation hubs like Habibi.Works, Energy in a Box, FabLab Winam, and CC4D, ensuring adaptability to diverse contexts.
Prototypes range from 1.2m to 4m rotor diameters, utilising recycled magnets and local materials, offering low-cost and scalable alternatives for off-grid energy access.
Through this partnership, School of the Earth and Re-Alliance are hoping that clean energy can become an accessible part of community-led humanitarian responses, empowering communities to generate their own energy, skills, and futures.
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