 In 2000, Practical Action contracted Hugh Piggott, a widely acknowledged expert in small wind energy who, at the time, had more than 20 years of experience in harnessing electricity from the wind in the remote off-grid rural community of Scoraig in Scotland, to prepare a design manual for the local production of 200W small wind turbines in developing countries.In the following years, Hugh Piggott continued improving the design manual himself while organizing hands-on construction workshops in Europe and the United States, where DIY enthusiasts learned how to build complete small wind turbines.Gradually he developed a design which could be locally manufactured with simple benchtop tools and techniques, using mostly locally sourced materials.