This year we returned to teach our fourth course with final year Renewable Energy Engineering students at the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus.

Having supplied the department with all the tools and materials necessary to run a course last March our brief was to train teachers to run the course themselves in the future whilst teaching students, as before, how to build and install a 1.8m turbine over 5 days.

The welding in particular proved more challenging than anticipated and we may be asked to return in future years to continue the skills transfer, the upside being we can now commute on the train and once the renewable energy building is finished the students (and teachers) will be able to carve blades, wind coils and cast stators at their leisure.. watch out Cornwall!