Millions of 
Engineers are
Never given a Chance

Empower Energy Design (EED) is born out of our international pilot programs as well as E&D research projects. Previously, we have been a part-time non-profit company focused on collaborations and solutions that have been traditionally neglected in International Development Energy Systems. ​Now we want to use our academic expertise and teaching skills to contribute to empower solutions. These solutions focus on solving our global energy engineering problems with local design and expertise. 

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Empower Energy Design (EED) has launched with a mission to empower local energy resilient clean solutions. For low-to-middle-income countries (LMICs), we focus on generating electricity from local renewable energy sources and expertise. In high income countries (HICs), we focus on increasing resiliency during energy blackouts and climate-based unreliability events (or simply to empower cleantech growth). EED aims to bring sustainable and reliable energy solutions to communities in need. Our collaborators co-design energy systems with our innovative energy-entrepreneurship-education (E3) program funded by contracts from our R&D expertise and experience.

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EED recognizes that low to middle-income countries often face significant challenges when it comes to accessing reliable electricity. Many communities still rely on traditional sources of energy, such as wood and charcoal, which are not only expensive but also harmful to the environment and public health. Even with solar panels, batteries, and back-up generators, hospitals face weekly and even daily electricity outages. Sometimes due to inability to purchase diesel fuel because antibiotics or vaccines are needed. Lack of access to reliable electricity hampers economic growth and makes it difficult for communities to access education and lives are at risk in healthcare when electricity fails or too expensive.

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EED believes that local renewable energy solutions can provide a sustainable and cost-effective solution to this problem. By harnessing the power of the human, animal, water, wind, biogas, biodiesel, solar, and other locally available energies, communities can generate their own electricity. They can either optimize a system to purchase and install and maintain themselves or they can even build the systems themselves, depending on what they are facing and potential energy crisis. This allows them to become more self-sufficient, moving from dependency-based energy systems to interdependent energy systems, and dramatically lowering the barriers to reliable electricity that is clean and resilient.​

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EED primarily funds projects from contract work and grants, but periodically from donors, volunteers, and partners to expand its work to more communities in need. With our efforts, communities can look forward to a brighter, more sustainable future.