Post by bipul62 on Feb 20, 2024 5:56:55 GMT
Wind turbine to provide power to isolated communities in Kenya The flat wind turbine designed by Douglas Macartney in 2018 has been developed into a viable prototype by several teams of university engineers at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU). The turbine, designed by a then 15-year-old Scottish schoolboy, will be used to help supply power to communities in Kenya. The goal of the technology is to improve access to energy by making it affordable, reliable and low carbon. Microgeneration of renewable energy is a solution to bring electricity to Africa according to experts.
The prototype can be assembled without the need for specialized training and is designed to help areas recovering from natural disasters and rural settlements far from grid connection. The wind turbine was first presented at COP26, after the idea was selected from 11,000 proposals in a national competition UK Phone Number organized by the non-profit organization Primary Engineer in 2019. A year later, the university team behind the project is working with other partners to bring the turbine to Kenya . The project is one of 64 sharing £26m of funding from the UK Government's Innovate UK Energy Catalyst programme. Macartney, now 19 and studying mathematics at Cambridge University, designed the turbine when he was a student at Edinburgh's Royal High School. He said the original concept was inspired by a flat-pack refugee shelter created by Swedish giant Ikea .
Ikea built a flat-pack refugee shelter and I really liked its simplicity. I thought about doing the same but with something that would have energy use in a refugee camp. Working with the GCU team has been great. It's been amazing to see my idea on paper turn into a working prototype. It has been developed much more than I would have thought possible when I came up with the design. Douglas Macartney GCU will partner with DeCourcy Alexander, a London-based sustainable innovation consultancy, and E-Safiri Charging Limited, a Kenyan company dedicated to research and innovative solutions to provide access to sustainable energy.
The prototype can be assembled without the need for specialized training and is designed to help areas recovering from natural disasters and rural settlements far from grid connection. The wind turbine was first presented at COP26, after the idea was selected from 11,000 proposals in a national competition UK Phone Number organized by the non-profit organization Primary Engineer in 2019. A year later, the university team behind the project is working with other partners to bring the turbine to Kenya . The project is one of 64 sharing £26m of funding from the UK Government's Innovate UK Energy Catalyst programme. Macartney, now 19 and studying mathematics at Cambridge University, designed the turbine when he was a student at Edinburgh's Royal High School. He said the original concept was inspired by a flat-pack refugee shelter created by Swedish giant Ikea .
Ikea built a flat-pack refugee shelter and I really liked its simplicity. I thought about doing the same but with something that would have energy use in a refugee camp. Working with the GCU team has been great. It's been amazing to see my idea on paper turn into a working prototype. It has been developed much more than I would have thought possible when I came up with the design. Douglas Macartney GCU will partner with DeCourcy Alexander, a London-based sustainable innovation consultancy, and E-Safiri Charging Limited, a Kenyan company dedicated to research and innovative solutions to provide access to sustainable energy.