V3 Power was set up by a group of engineers and science educators in 2006.
Initially we focused on teaching people how to build, install, and service Hugh Piggott wind turbines; running many workshops and courses over the years for Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), Derbyshire Eco Centre, Brighton Permaculture Trust and many university groups in the UK and Europe.
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Previous courses
![](https://v3power.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wind-turbine-assembly.jpg)
Workshops for adults
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Servicing
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Hugh Piggot components
Then we diversified and began to run more bespoke DIY renewable energy projects, designing and building all sorts of things from bicycle generators and pedal generators to a rainwater harvesting light installation to a wind turbine workshop kit for schools.
![custom-power](https://v3power.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/custom-power-300x158.jpg)
Now most of our work involves collaborating with bespoke gear building and hiring bicycle generators and pedal generators.
Our team has varied over the years but we are currently a two-person, part-time ad hoc operation.
Mission
To promote DIY sustainable energy technologies through practical education and through building, installing and maintaining sustainable energy systems.
- We are committed to working in a way that brings about positive social and environmental change
- We believe in the DIY ethic and empowering people through teaching to do it themselves
- We are supporters of the co-operative movement and our company is structured as a workers co-op, owned equally by its members
Our values and principles are built upon those of the International Cooperative Alliance.
Values
Self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity.