The ITCS unit had successfully organised the Eighth international Training course on “Wind Turbine Technology and Applications” during 1st – 24th February 2012. This is a special course for African Countries sponsored by Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India and Supported by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India. Twenty Six participants from 11 African countries attended the course. The participants were from Burundi, Congo, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
The training course was Inaugurated by Shri K.P.Sukumaran, National Project Manager, UNDP, Former Advisor, MNRE & Former Executive Director, C-WET.
The course content for the training was very comprehensive syllabus with experts in various fields giving lectures and specific case studies. Practical training with wind resource assessment, instrumentation, Testing equipment, R&D equipment was made available and factory visits to M/s Suzlon Energy Limited at Pondicherry, M/s Leitner Shriram Manufacturing limited, Chennai and Structural Engineering Research Centre, Chennai were arranged.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.
Dr. S. Iniyan, Professor & Director, Institute for Energy Studies, Anna University, Chennai was the Chief Guest for the Valedictory function and he had been kind enough to distribute the course certificate to the participants.
