The project endeavors to introduce a new renewable energy mode new to Eritrea in launching pilot investments in both larger scale electricity generation into the national grids and in testing wind energy complementing diesel power or providing the sole electricity source in rural village communities, which do not have access to the two main grids. It also aims at transferring the wind energy technological and operating know-how to Eritrean institutions and players on the market, both at the central, regional and community levels through capacity building activities. The project is to test through the pilot investments the technical, economic, environmental, social and institutional viability of these applications and to provide credible cases for their replication in Eritrea, and managing them down the line by local institutions and resources.