The AIDG's 1st incubated business, XelaTeco, recently won a contract funded by the United Nations to produce and install a 16 kW hydroelectric system for the Comunidad Nueva Alianza, a worker-owned coffee plantation in the Guatemalan highlands.  Currently, the community has no access to grid electricity.  The hydroelectric system being installed by Xela Teco will supply power to 40 homes at the site, providing a reliable source of renewable energy.

Xelateco is producing the electronic ballast load controllers, pelton turbines, housings, safety features, as well as laying the penstock and connecting all of the houses. This is an amazing feat for a team that just got started in August 2005. Your donations are what support this effort, so please consider donating today. We couldn't do this without you.