Posts Categorized: Tanzania

With great success, the first partner project between I Love Windpower Tanzania (ILWPT) and Engineers Without Borders (EWB) UK branch at the University of Warwick took place in September 2013 in the village of Kemgesi, Serengeti region, Tanzania. The new partnership (facilitated by James Low of Wind Empowerment) saw the two groups install a 1kW… Read more »

The last couple of months, the blogging activity of I Love Windpower Tanzania has decreased, because a lot of time and effort has been put in the Tanzanian spin off company Windpower Serengeti Ltd. Please contact that company directly for commercial wind power related questions. In the mean time, the Dutch NGO I Love Windpower… Read more »

Another maintenance action has been performed. This time on the oldest turbine of our population, which is now nearly 2 years of age. The wind turbine is installed at the test facility of TaTEDO in the hills of Dar Es Salaam (Mbezi Juu). Because this turbine is the first, small things differ from the majority… Read more »

‘Changamoto’ is kiswahili for ‘challenge’. And this is really the best word describing the status of Operation & Maintenance of wind turbines at the moment. In fact, it is an observation which can be made on a lot of technical things in Tanzania. Normally, stuff is only repaired to such a level that you can… Read more »

After the successful ‘Training the VETA-Teachers’ from all over the country, a follow-up workshop was organized. The participants of this workshop are representatives from all the major stakeholders of Renewable Energy in Tanzania. The goal of this workshop was to produce a vision or a strategy, to get renewable energy into the standard curriculum of… Read more »