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wind power in Nicaragua - A Success Story of DC

A windmill in Nicaragua - which is really a sensation. The relatively small with 225 KW power plant in the Pacific coastal city of León is surrounded by a high fence to keep unauthorized persons away. Because the interest in the building that was built with Austrian support is great.

wind turbine Leon ,

impetus for the project was the HTL Braunau , with a technical school, the Instituto La Salle in León in a school partnership might. It was not easy for the Upper Austrian students to finance a wind power plant for about 8,000 kilometers away, friends. A cost-effective solution was found in a used wind turbine. This was purchased with funding from the Austrian Development Cooperation, ADC, transported and erected on site.

30,000 kilowatt hours of electricity supplies, the wind turbine, Type "Vestas V 27" annually to the Technical Institute "La Salle" in the Nicaraguan city of Leon was. In 2004 the wind power plant in operation. A technical team of the Institute IPLS (Instituto Politécnico La Salle) care and waiting before the system place.

The HTL Braunau and O.ö. company wind Simonsfeld support and advice via remote diagnostics, financed schools Nicaraguan technicians in Austria and help in obtaining spare parts. and installed wind power plant as part of a cooperation HTL Braunau with the wind Simon Field, the Upper Austrian Provincial Government, and the ADA, Austrian Development Agency.

The system was adapted in Germany after some years, for use in Nicaragua, shipped and reinstalled. Since then the machine wind power for the Technical Institute. With the proceeds of the sale of the electricity grid-connected system of school operations is supported. More than 900 students currently attending this institution in the increasingly renewable energy sources are subject.
The Technical Institute is an important driving force for sustainable development in Nicaragua - not only on energy.

is now the wind power in Nicaragua continues to rise. An already-realized project at Rivas, in southern Nicaragua is to be expanded to include 11 wind turbines with 40 MW installed capacity. Electricity production from currently operating systems meet the equivalent needs of 320,000 households.