Brothers design low-cost wind turbine to power Indian homes

(29 May 2016) INDIA WINDMILL SOURCE: AP HORIZONS, LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY RESTRICTIONS: HORIZONS CLIENTS AND AP LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLY LENGTH: 5:35 AP Television Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India - 27 February 2016 ++DAY SHOTS++ 1. Wide of small wind turbine created by Avant Garde Innovations, founders and brothers Arun George and Anoop George approaching to inspect it 2. Mid of small wind turbine 3. Various of George brothers tying banner to mast 4. Mid of banner 5. Close of wind turbine 6. Various of George brothers fixing turbine and inspecting it 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Arun Geroge, CEO and Founder of Avant Garde Innovations: "We have made this turbine at a cost that is almost unheard of in the country so far. So we are targeting to make this available at around 50,000 rupees (approx. $750USD) per kilowatt, for the common man. And that's the kind of a revolution we are trying to bring into the industry. By making clean energy affordable to the common man." AP Television Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India - 10 February 2016 7. Various of Anoop George operating prototype at home 8. Close of prototype with Avant Garde logo AP Television Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India - 27 February 2016 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Arun Geroge, CEO and Founder of Avant Garde Innovations: "Whatever power they produce for the rest of the life of the wind turbine - which is around 20 years - will be free electricity to them. So that's one of the big advantages of this. And secondly, this is clean energy. In fact, our world - as we all know - is trying to embrace renewable energy. So, this is going to be like a grassroots movement, which will enable a lot of people in our state and our country to start using renewable energy and reduce our dependency on fossil fuel generated electricity." AP Television Aralvaimozhi, Tamil Nadu, India - 3 March 2016 10. Various of windmill farm by busy road 11. Various of windmill generating electricity for tyre manufacturer AP Television Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India - 29 February 2016 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Suresh Kumar Kumaresan, Wind Engineering Expert: "In Indian context, I would say that we are developing, we are doing so many things, but it is not sufficient or we didn't tap the full potential. I think partly because the issue is the government is not very, I would say, supportive in terms of giving subsidies and things like that, which I think recently they started doing, but it's not in a full-blown state." AP Television Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India - 27 February 2016 ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 13. Various of Madre De Deus Church in Vettukad where a small wind turbine has been installed by Avant Garde Innovations ++DAY SHOTS++ 14. Various wide shots of church area AP Television Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India - 29 February 2016 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Father Nicholas Pulluvila, Priest at Vettukad Church: "We have to hear what the Pope says. And now he's speaking about the Green Energy which will be used, and it is useful for our health, for our environment. And this can be easily used and this is given by the nature. We have to use it." AP Television Aralvaimozhi, Tamil Nadu, India - 3 March 2016 16. Various of windmills 17. Long shot of bikes on road running through village 18. Various of village residents where wind farms have been set up 19. SOUNDBITE (Malayalam) Ramayya Kannayya Thevar, Village Resident: AP Television Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India - 27 February 2016 20. Various of crows and other birds in city AP Television Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India - 3 March 2016 21. SOUNDBITE (Malayalam) Raheem Chellappan Ravuthar, Ornithologist: AP Television 22. Various of Avant Garde small wind turbine ==== You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/673687da735473e811c9b87d607295d6 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork