After less than a year in operation, the micro grid at Kristy’s Cape Academy in Muhuru Bay has produced 2MWh of energy! Thank you to our volunteers and cong...

Sunday August 24, 2014 Vincent and Ayesha have joined the team, arriving today along with the Alstom team. PowerGen also arrived today to begin assembling t...

Check out these great time lapse videos of our wind turbine installation and community event!

Friday September 5, 2014 Team 3’s stay comes to a close today, as we are the last ones to flight back to Seattle tonight. Our last day in Muhuru Bay was qui...

Sunday August 31, 2014 Eli and Kayla left on Saturday morning. Their bus left with 1.5hr delay because the it had been stuck in a traffic jam in Nairobi. To ...

Friday August 29, 2014 Things have been slow for us the last few days – as the microgrid manager is fully in charge of the daily operations of the kiosk and ...

Thursday August 28, 2014 People are slowly trickling in to pick up their BBOXXs. Today we passed out out the thirteenth! We’ve also had 3 people come in for ...

Monday August 25, 2014 PowerGen finished installing the wind turbines today and they are producing power! We reviewed the maintenance procedures with PowerGe...

Wednesday August 20, 2014 It’s been slow here, but good. We’ve gone through most of the training, the changes to the training docs have been typed up and wil...

Tuesday August 19, 2014 Kayla and Eli got in on Sunday night and quickly got to work getting caught up on what the team had been working on. Henry, Steve, an...

Friday August 15, 2014 Well, it can’t all go smoothly. Today as we were prepping to do a test raise on the first wind turbine tower, we noticed that the conc...

Monday August 11, 2014 Team 1 (Steve, Kristy, Daniel, Jenna, Henry, Kristine, Michael and Andrew) arrived in Muhuru Bay last night. The journey to Muhuru Bay...

Monday August 18, 2014 Other than wind turbines and the 49 outstanding BBOXXs, the system is up and running. Symons house and the kiosk have been running of...

Thursday August 14, 2014 I will start today’s post with an overview of the system that is being installed here in Muhuru Bay. Two wind turbines (about 1kW ea...

Wednesday August 13, 2014 Last night came to a close with a large storm. High winds and rains had us taking cover after dinner (our dinners consisted of whit...

Tuesday August 12, 2014 Lots of progress to report! Yesterday the team from PowerGen arrived from Nairobi. Although they had been on the road for about 11 ho...

CONGRATULATIONS to our Seattle University senior design team – the GRAND PRIZE winners of the 2014 NCEESEngineering Award for Connecting Professional Practic...

We are pleased to announce the launch of our project video! Check it out for info on our efforts in Kenya, footage and photos from the assessment trip, and ...

Congrats to our very own Dr. Henry Louie, assistant professor at Seattle University, for his featured article from Seattle U’s Center for Environmental Justi...