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blueEnergy, Pioneers of Low Cost Wind Power in Nicaragua
As I walked up to the room I was going to stay in, the reggae music flowing, the wood cabin reminiscent of a 19th century miners home, I had no idea what I was getting into. But that is when I first met Mathias as he greeted me at his cabin door. I was visiting my twin sister Abby at the boarding school Midland, located in remote Southern California. I stayed with Mathias in his cabin for a week and albeit, that be years ago now, I have always remembered the good times I had on that visit. So early in October this year, I was not surprised to recently have heard from Mathias. This time he was based on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua where the reggae music also flows and as one local Bluefields man told me about one reggae legend Lucky Dube, "we wake to Lucky Dube, we work to Lucky Dube and we sleep to Lucky Dube." So it comes as no surprise to me that Mathias had found this unique part of the world.
And it is there on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua, where Mathias Craig and Rodobaldo Duartes, co-founders of blueEnergy have begun to provide a low-cost, wind power solution to meet the energy needs of the underdeveloped communities that scatter the diverse coastline.
In fact blueEnergy has aspirations to do work throughout Mexico and Central America. Many of the communities are isolated from their national grids and beyond the service area of their national governments. blueEnergy addresses their energy needs by providing micro wind turbines and related energy equipment and services.
In order to make its wind turbines affordable, blueEnergy is establishing a regional manufacturing capacity based on local people, local materials, and its low-cost design.
What is great is that blueEnergy will test and refine its wind energy systems in Nicaragua, where management has first hand experience with local communities. blueEnergy will use this testing phase to hedge against technical risks by collecting operational data on its micro-wind turbine systems. Management believes that this approach will build a robust track record and will allow the company to leverage its goodwill into the greater Central American market.
Management will establish the first manufacturing facility in Bluefields, the largest city on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, with a population of approximately 60,000 people. Bluefields is an active port that is dominated by seafood commerce. blueEnergy will start by servicing communities around Bluefields and will then consider expanding into new manufacturing facilities in other locations in Nicaragua and beyond Nicaragua.
We look forward to hearing about how progress is going, please visit the blueEnergy website for more information. http://www.blueenergy.org.
Text Credit: by Tyler Tibbs with text adapted from blueEnergy statement about themselves.
As I walked up to the room I was going to stay in, the reggae music flowing, the wood cabin reminiscent of a 19 the century miners home, I had no idea what I was getting into. But that is when I first met Mathias as he greeted me at his cabin door. I was visiting my twin sister Abby at the boarding school Midland, located in remote Southern California. I stayed with Mathias in his cabin for a week and and albeit, that be years ago now, I have always remembered the good times I had on that visit. So early in October this year, I was not surprised to recently have heard from Mathias. This time he was based on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua where the reggae music also flows and as one local Bluefields man told me about one reggae legend Lucky Dube, "we wake to Lucky Dube, we work to Lucky Dube and we sleep to Lucky Dube." So as if it were a surprise to me that Mathias had found this unique part of the world.
And it is there on the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua, where Mathias Craig and Rodobaldo Duartes, co-founders of blueEnergy have begun to provide a low-cost, wind power solution to meet the energy needs of the underdeveloped communities that scatter the diverse coastline.
In fact blueEnergy has aspirations to do work throughout Mexico and Central America. Many of the communities are isolated from their national grids and beyond the service area of their national governments. blueEnergy addresses their energy needs by providing micro wind turbines and related energy equipment and services.
In order to make its wind turbines affordable, blueEnergy is establishing a regional manufacturing capacity based on local people, local materials, and its low-cost design.
What is great is that blueEnergy will test and refine its wind energy systems in Nicaragua, where management has first hand experience with local communities. blueEnergy will use this testing phase to hedge against technical risks by collecting operational data on its micro-wind turbine systems. Management believes that this approach will build a robust track record and will allow the company to leverage its goodwill into the greater Central American marker
Management will establish the first manufacturing facility in Bluefields, the largest city on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua, with a population of approximately 60,000 people. Bluefields is an active port that is dominated by seafood commerce. blueEnergy will start by servicing communities around Bluefields and will then consider expanding into new manufacturing facilities in other locations in Nicaragua and beyond Nicaragua.
We look forward to hearing about how progress is going, please visit the blueEnergy website for more information. http://www.blueenergy.com .
Text Credit: Adapted from blueEnergy statement about themselves.
