NICARAGUA

Overview:

Our project is a household wind project for two farming communities in the countryside of Nicargua, Coroso and San Sapote. These communities are not currently, and will not in the near future, be connected to the national electricity grid. Our project will be to help design and build household wind turbines with locally available materials, to charge batteries to provide power for families.

We will be collaborating on this project with AsoFenix, a NGO which promotes sustainable development in Nicaragua with projects similar to this one. We collaborated with AsoFenix last year on a biogas digester project.

Project Definition: Help design and install roughly 10, 50-100-watt, household wind systems in Coroso and San Sapote, Nicaragua using locally available materials and equipment.

Project Timeline: The trip is tentatively planned for spring break 2010 or summer 2010. In the meantime there is plenty of work to be done finding a grant to fund the project and collaborating with AsoFenix to work on the design.

Meeting Times: TBD, if you are interested in this project please contact John Siegfried.

Contact: John Siegfried

phone: (832) 741 -1605

e-mail: j-segfried@northwestern.edu