Wind Mobile

The ‘Wind Mobile’ project is an action research project which aims to develop low cost, locally manufactured micro wind turbines for cost effective mobile phone charging services for refugees within camps and settlements. 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 but also in terms of skills and expertise, 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.

The ‘Wind Mobile’’ project is supported by Re-Alliance and is developed within the School of the Earth’s ‘Energy for a Common Future’ project, with the scientific support of the Rural Electrification Research Group (RurERG) of SmartRUE, and in collaboration with IEEE SIGHT Greece section.