UW–Madison Team Develops Wind Turbine For Cell Towers in Rural India

UW-Madison students work on a wind turbine that will be entered in a national competition next week.

With the aim of helping make electricity more available in rural parts of India, a team of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has designed a wind turbine that could provide power to cellular phone towers. The Badgers' team, WiscWind, of 15 engineers and business students will compete this week in New Orleans at a national competition hosted by the American Wind Energy Association and sponsored by the Department of Energy.