Winrock International

Winrock International is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to working with people in the US and around the world to increase economic opportunity, sustain natural resources, and protect the environment. Winrock has over 170 full time staff and an international network of 2000 technical experts, working in over 65 countries worldwide, and formal and informal linkages with 500 NGOs.

Key areas of Renewable Energy (RE) specialisation include:

• Clean energy technologies - solar photovoltaic (PV), improved cook stoves, wind, biomass and biofuels, biogas, microhydro
• Clean energy applications - lighting; cooking; water heating, pumping and irrigation; telecommunications; refrigeration; transportation; heating; motive power for industry and electrification
• Grid-connected, mini-grid, off-grid systems
• Community-based energy solutions
• Large-scale RE and rural energy planning and implementation
• Productive and social application strategies for RE
• Energy policy, regulatory and investment guidance and analysis
• Financing facilitation
• Business advisory services
• Education and outreach
• Training and capacity building
• Gender consultation
• Climate change support

Key areas of Biofuels specialisation include:

• Project preparation, design and implementation
• Policy, institutional, financial and technical analysis
• Community-based applications
• Commercial applications
• GIS-based energy crop analysis

TI-UP Advisors: Margaret McCauley, Ian Monroe