Simon Mwacharo and William Kamkwamba – Renewable Energy Innovators.
Here is the video i did with Simon Mwacharo, the founder of Craftskills, a wind and solar company based in Kenya. This was recorded after his TED talk which you can find a great summary of at LHKB Ethanâ??s and my post on his talk can be found here.
**I am a total noob on this one, please pardon the frequent uh huhâ??s vigorous head nodding and leading questionsâ?¦I said it was a conversation right? Right. I promise that the next video I make will definitely be better; I am getting started on Pixel Corps to get me on the road to better digital media work.(Thanks Alex Lindsay). Ok, without further adoâ?¦
Please click here to download the video
Update1: Mr. Mwacharo commented on the post
We are situated in Kibera slums Nairobi and are looking for a chance to give Africa her pride. Funds will come in handy to place us on an industrial scenario where we can produce these turbines at a lower cost and benefit wananchi.
Check out his company here.
Meeting these two gentlemen pictured above at TED was indeed an honour. I am not the only one who was impressed…Nii Simmonds has a post on William Kamkwamba, “I see I make”.
Update 2: Via Hash, William Kamkwamba has a blog, do visit him here.

Its nice to read that we have Kenyans trying to make power cheaper. The problem is that we have a government that hasnt realised the potential of the wind as well as the solar power. Rwanda recently put up a solar plant and they are planning to have a 250KwH of power from solar. Thats what i call a vision. Eddy Njoroge is sleeping on his job now that GeoThermal will be carried out by another company. What a rip off to KenGen shareholders.
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Thank you for posting the picture of me and Simon!
I look forward to reading more of your blog.
Cheers,
William
Bonjours Juliana, how are you? thanks for this nice video.
hope all is well and keep in touch.
PS. I miss the Via via Time