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The Technology of blueEnergy

The core of blueEnergy’s energy service is a low-tech wind turbine that can be built and maintained locally using largely available labor and materials.  By manufacturing wind turbines and other key system components locally, near their point of usage, blueEnergy is able to keep energy costs low, improve equipment serviceability, and create employment where it is desperately needed. More on the Technology [+]

Business Models

In order to deliver a lasting solution, blueEnergy implements a business model that combines a charitable social vision of serving the poor with the technical and business sense of for-profit enterprise.  blueEnergy invests heavily in developing local capacity so that its projects can be run and sustained by local people for local benefit.  To ensure financial stability, blueEnergy places high priority on identifying and capturing revenue streams outside of public charity, such as commercial sales of energy systems, energy system leases, community battery charging fees, project consulting fees, and government contracts. More on the Business Models [+]

The Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua

blueEnergy Pilot Project

The pilot project, carried out between November 2004 and November 2005, was an ambitious program to get blueEnergy established on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua and to prove that its proposed renewable energy systems could be locally manufactured and deliver low-cost energy to communities in need. Funding for the pilot project came from the Energy and Environment Partnership with Central America, a Finnish led Central American consortium working to promote biodiversity and sustainable energy development, and from private donors. More on the Pilot Project [+]