Hydro Turbine course held

Taxila -- GIZ and Hydrolink jointly organized a one week Capacity Building Training for local manufacturers, practitioners and AKRSP Engineers belonging to Chitral and Skardu, representative from Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) also participated in the training.

The training was organized in CRE (Center for Renewable and Alternative Energy for Mountain People) at Hydrolink Engineering Company at Taxila. Mr. Gehard Fisher, the Pioneer and expert of T-15 Crossflow Turbine was the resource person of the training- The training was aimed to further develop the Capacity of local manufactures in manufacturing of turbines, and to share the quality aspects of T-15 technology with the practitioners and engineers working in micro hydel projects.

It is pertinent to say here that T15 Crossflow Turbine is Certified Technology being Licensed from Entec Indonesia, is more efficient and can be used in medium head and discharge up to 125KW, GIZ and AKRSP may assist the local manufacturers to upgrade the license up to 300KW in near future, which will be very fruitful for the Communities of remote areas, who are benefiting from Micro Hydel Power Plants.

Hydrolink is pioneer in arranging training for operators and Community management groups on the job to ensure the sustainability of micro hydel projects in Chitral and other part of Northern Areas.

Engr. Fazli Rabbi , CEO of Hydrolink, thanked GIZ for organizing such trainings and told the media that Hydrolink has also scheduled training for more than 40 Mhp Operators from Shangla & Kohistan with the coordination of GAA/WHH Islamabad, a German NGO working in Pakistan, and expecting to invite operators from Chitral and Skardu with the coordination of AEDB Pakistan. -- CN report, 03 July 2012.

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