Question: Can wind energy be used in developing countries?

...Wind Energy is an ideal developing country technology...

Although wind turbine design has become a high tech industry, wind turbines can easily be installed in developing countries, and serviced and maintained locally. Turbine manufacturers provide training courses for personnel.

Installation of wind turbines provides jobs in the local community, and manufacturers will often manufacture heavy parts of the turbine, e.g. towers, locally once the installation rate reaches a certain level.

Wind turbines require no subsequent expensive provision of fuel, a major stumbling block for several other electricity generating technologies in developing areas.

India has become one of the large wind energy nations of the world with substantial local manufacturing.

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