Peter Dunn (engineer)

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Peter Douglas Dunn

OBE
(20 January 1927 – 7 March 2014) was a British engineer.

After working at the

Intermediate Technology Development Group (now Practical Action
). He encouraged the Departmental research group to contribute to the developing sectors of intermediate technology.

Peter Dunn started the world's first

Renewable Energy in 1977.[4] The research group contributed to early UK work on wind energy. The group included Dr Musgrove who went on to be the first Chairman of the British Wind Energy Association (now called RenewableUK) [5]
and then on to head of development at National Wind Power. In the 1999 New Year Honours Professor Peter Douglas Dunn was honoured with an OBE, Order of the British Empire "For services to the development of innovative energy technologies". (Oxon, Oxfordshire)[6]

Gamos was founded in 1989 by Peter Dunn and Simon Batchelor.[7] Gamos was proposed as an organisation to expand the work of the department in the combination of poverty alleviation and renewable energy. It has since expanded its work to include poverty alleviation and Information and Communication Technology.

Gamos is a UK organisation specialising in development aid. Using the word related to hieros gamos but not drawing on its meaning, the organisation has enabling frameworks with the UK Department for International Development. It has been cited by that agency as having been the eighth most active contractor within DFID's Engineering Knowledge and Research Programme.[8]

Gamos contributed to the

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.[10]

Dunn died on 7 March 2014.[11]

References

  1. ^ [1] Historical timeline of University of Reading
  2. ^ [2] Institute of Mechanical Engineers
  3. ISBN 0-333-24206-8
  4. ISBN 0-86341-039-1
  5. ^ [3] Archived 20 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine History of BWEA
  6. ^ [4] New Year Honours list BBC 1998
  7. ^ [5] Energy Institute website
  8. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 December 2006. Retrieved 11 March 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Evaluation of DFID’s Engineering Knowledge and Research (EngKaR) Programme
  9. ^ [6] Archived 2009-02-07 at the Wayback Machine Commission For Africa Final Report
  10. ^ [7] Good Practice Paper on ICTs for Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
  11. ^ "Professor Peter Dunn - obituary". The Telegraph. 21 May 2014.

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