ECODEV see great importance in developing alternative, sources of energy to curb Global warming. Emphasis is on offering training programs on the development and use of renewable energy. We collaborate with other organizations in order to introduce solar, wind, bioenergy and other renewable energy systems to our society. We are currently collaborating with INENSUS and the Canadian environmental network, through Onesky to introduce renewables in NIGERIA. This has led to the formation of a Coalition of Renewable Energy Network.(CREN), and we are in the steering committee. In 2004, We were asked by the German government to norminate one of us for a technical training on wind energy in Germany. The training was completed in August 2005 through the suppervision of INWENT (www.inwent.org) The founder of ECODEV is a member of several renewable energy networks, including World Wind Energy Association, African wind energy association, which he is also the Nigerian country representative. And a one time member of World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE). Also, ECODEV is a member of International network for sustainable energy (INFORSE), Earthday Network etc. ECODEV won the 2007 award of the Wuppertal Institute (Germany), Renewable Energy Award, of the renewable energy in the food supply chain. This was as a result of the low cost Biodigester that ECODEV designed and test run in Osusuo-Nkpuor community of Cross River State Nigeria. We were invited to the 14th European biomass conference in Paris in 2005 and we made a visual presentation on bioenergy applications in the conference. The paper was published.
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