About Wiloma Green Foundation

Wiloma Green Foundation is a non-governmental organization established with Headquarters at the Department of Agricultural and Bioresources Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

The activities of WGF include research, development, training and dissemination of renewable energy technologies for environmental cleanliness and aesthetics, agricultural sustainability, climate change and the mitigation, socio-economic empowerment of people.

The activities also extend to dissemination of renewable energy devices for industrial and economic growth. Through WGF programmes, local youths, women, farmers and unemployed are trained on the use of appropriate alternative and renewable energy technologies for domestic and industrial applications, and agricultural processing, handling, storage and economic enhancement while at the same time training system fabricators as service providers.

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(i) USAID National Consultant: Alternative Energy Policy Draft for Cross River State, Nigeria

(ii) Pioneered research into the use of solar energy for poultry egg incubation (hatching of eggs), funded by the National Centre for Energy Research and Development, University of Nigeria, Nsukka

(iii) Design and Construction of NCERD Commercial Solar Energy Crop Dryer

(iv) UNIDO National Consultant: Ebonyi State Solar Energy Salt Extraction from Okposi and Uburu Lake Waters.

(v) Design and Construction of Solar Desalination System for Salt Production from sea water

(vi) Design and Construction of the NCERD Trombe Wall 2000 birds capacity solar poultry chick brooder

(vii) Design and Construction of Eziani Commercial Solar Energy Powered Trombe Wall Poultry Farm, 4000 birds capacity, Eziani, Nsukka L.G.A. Enugu State

(viii) Design, Construction and Performance Evaluation of 150 capacity Trombe Wall Poultry Chick Brooding System at NCERD, UNN

(ix) Construction of Prototypes of Passive Solar Energy Poultry Chick Brooding Systems for Commercial Trials in Enugu State, Nigeria, funded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) under the University Industrial – Science Partnership (UNISPAR) programme

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