blueEnergy is a non-profit organization building sustainable energy and water systems on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua.
The organization began in October 2002 with an award-winning class project by co-founder Mathias Craig while he was a graduate student at MIT.
[1] The organization's main administrative office is located in San Francisco, while project work is centered on their shop in Bluefields, run by Guillaume Craig.
[2] Since 2009, blueEnergy has switched to solar panels for power generation and broadened its activities to include water filtration and sanitation services, which are often more urgently needed than energy in the communities it serves.
The organization drills wells, manufactures biosand filters, constructs latrines, and teaches safe sanitation practices, often with the beneficiaries themselves providing labor.