CWET's ITCS unit had successfully organized the Ninth International Training course on “Wind Turbine Technology and Applications” during 5th – 27th September 2012 to address all aspects of Wind Power starting from wind resource assessment to installation, operation and maintenance aspects of wind farms along with financial analysis and CDM benefits. This is a special training course for Indian Technical and Economic Co-operation (ITEC) and Special Commonwealth Assistance for Africa Programme (SCAAP) partner Countries organized by Centre for Wind Energy Technology, Chennai, India under the ITEC / SCAAP programme of Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India with the support of Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India. The course was attended by 31 participants from 22 countries (Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lesotho, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Tanzania, Ukraine and Vietnam).
The training course was inaugurated by Shri. Mooza Raza I.A.S, Padma Bhushan awardee, Member, RFD-ATF, New Delhi, Former Chief Secretary to Government of J&K & Secretary to Government of India.
The course content for the training was very comprehensive syllabus and the lectures of the course delivered by eminent Scientists, engineers and other wind energy professionals with years of experience drawn from C-WET, wind turbine industries and academic institutions. The 23 days programme included classroom lectures, field & factory visits and practical training sessions to provide complete knowledge transfer to the participants. As part of the training course, the practical training with Wind Resource Assessment, instrumentation, Testing & R&D equipments was arranged apart from the factory visits to M/s. ReGen Powertech at Tada where they had a chance of listening from the industry experts who is actually in the process of making wind turbines and visiting the manufacturing facilities.
To provide hand on experience, the participants have been taken to M/s MinVayu facilities at Auroville where all the participants had a chance of manufacturing Small Wind Turbine themselves after getting theoretical Training of how to manufacturing the Small Wind Turbine with the local materials at low cost.
The participant were also travelled to southern part of Tamil Nadu to visit Wind Turbine Test / Research Station, Kayathar and got to know about large and small wind turbine testing process and they also had opportunity of visiting wind farms in and around Kanyakumari, where wind turbines are installed in large numbers like coconut trees.
The course structure and organization of training was highly appreciated by the participants. The participants were very much satisfied by the quality of lectures and hospitality they found in India and the feedback from the participants reflected the need for more number of training programme like this frequently.
Shri. Dr. M. Sekar, Dean - CEG, Anna University, Chennai was the chief guest for the valedictory function and distributed the course certificate to the all the participants.
